Song of Songs 4

In the first five verses of this chapter, Solomon is praising his lover’s physical attributes. Even though, in today’s society, these verses may not seem to make much sense to us, we must realize that at that point in time, these were beautifully poetic things to say.

Now, here is what I find interesting. In the first chapter of this book, our maiden referred to herself as black and talked about how others treated her poorly for it, but here we find that her lover is endlessly praising her beauty. What does this mean to us? Could it be that everyone else somehow did not notice how beautiful she was? Could it be that he is mistaken and that she is not nearly as attractive as he thinks? Or is it possible that his love for her is so powerful that he cannot see her flawls and only sees the perfections in her. This would indeed explain verse 7:

“Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.”

True love looks past imperfections and sees only perfect beauty. This is the same way with Christ. Even though we were covered in our filthy sins, it is because of his perfect love that we are now spotless and blameless in his eyes.

Song of Songs 2

I would like to bring the focus of your attention for this chapter to verses 8 – 13:

⁸ The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. ⁹ My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. ¹⁰ My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. ¹¹ For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; ¹² The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; ¹³ The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

All I can I really say about this is that is seems to parallel Christs return. Notice how he comes down with a cry of love, not to join her, but to call her to himself. The graphic representation of the start of spring follows a similar line of thought as it could represent a type of changing of the seasons, just are we are supposed to be able to tell the changing of the seasons to be aware of when Christ is about to return.

Song of Songs 1

The story starts off right in the middle of the action. We are given no introduction to our two main characters, nor do we have any idea how they met or how their love blossomed. All we know is that they are in love and alas, that is all we need to know.

The main principle of love that we can take from this chapter is that “Love is blind.” Notice the complete difference between our lovers. He is a king who is adored by women everywhere. She is a poor, dark skinned girl, who is treated like a slave, even by her own family members. None of this seems to affect or bother them in the least bit, because it has nothing to do with the love they share.

You can look at this principle in the sense of romantic love. As a song titled “The Power Of Love” says, “You don’t need money…You don’t need fame…” But I believe that this is most meaningful when looking at it in perspective of Christ and us. Here God is the Lord of all the universe, and we are nothing in comparison, slaves to our own sinful human nature. But that means nothing. God loves us regardless of pathetic status.

Song of Songs (Solomon)

The Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon is a very unique book. Most preachers teach that it represents the love that Christ has for his church. There others that feel it is simply the love story between Solomon and woman he loved. To be honest, I’m not sure the story is even true. Who’s to say that it wasn’t written by Solomon as a story of love as it should be? Well, regardless of the reason why the story was first penned and what exactly it means, I believe that we can all grasp on thing from it. It is a representation of true love. It is for that reason that we can see Christ’s love for us, and it is also for that reason that we can better understand the kind of love that we are to have towards others, particularly our spouse.