THE THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
No matter how righteous you are, you cannot do ‘it’ alone
“A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.
Proverbs 18:1 (NKJV)
Song of Solomon
This book is a Divine allegory, which represents the love between Christ (the Groom) and his church (the bride) of true believers/the church, under figures taken from the relation and affection that subsist between a bridegroom (Christ) and his espoused bride (the church).
Song of Solomon 1
This is “the Song of songs,” excellent above any others, for it is wholly taken up with describing the excellences of Christ, and the love between him and his redeemed people.
1 Kings 4:32 (KJV), “And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.”
Song of Solomon 1:1 (KJV), “The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.”
The true believers feelings of Jesus’ kiss of acceptance is better than any wine could be
Song of Solomon 1:2 (KJV), “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.”
Those who still are unbelievers (virgins) smell the fragrance of Jesus on the new believers and repent and draw their love to Christ as Christ invites them into His house
Song of Solomon 1:3-4 (KJV), “3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. 4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.”
The blackness of a sinful nature will not prevent Christ from welcoming in anyone
Song of Solomon 1:5-6 (KJV), “5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.”
Unbelievers wonder endlessly through life
The tents
Brown-Driver-Briggs – 1. tent of nomad; one who leads a wandering life.
Of Kedar
Strong’s Concordance (6938) – Qedar: perhaps “swarthy,” a son of Ishmael, also his desc. Brown-Driver-Briggs – 1. tribe of nomads in Arabian desert.
The new believers quest to belong to Jesus’ flock
Song of Solomon 1:7 (KJV), “Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?”
Jesus tells the new believers to follow His flock since now you are among the best of the best
Song of Solomon 1:8-10 (KJV), “8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents. 9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots. 10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.”
The new believers are welcomed in with open arms
Song of Solomon 1:11 (KJV), “We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.”
This King has his royal table spread in the gospel, in which is made for all nations a feast of fat things
Song of Solomon 1:12a (KJV), “While the king sitteth at his table”.
Isaiah 25:6 (KJV), “And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.”
Then believers do him all the honor they can, and study how to express their esteem of him and gratitude to him, as Mary did when she anointed his head with the ointment of spikenard that was very costly
Song of Solomon 1:12b (KJV), “my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.”
John 12:3 (KJV), “Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.”
Christ is not only beloved by all believing souls, but is their well-beloved, their best-beloved, their only beloved; he has that place in their hearts which no rival can be admitted to, the innermost and uppermost place
Song of Solomon 1:13 (KJV), “A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.”
A note from Phil:
I have been out for almost 2 months due to surgeries and some health issues. My grateful thanks goes out to all those who kept me in their thoughts and prayers!
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