Sweet Notes from

Introduction:

"The song of songs, which is Solomon's." The lessons that we draw from the Song of Solomon are lessons that apply to the union that exists between Christ and His Church, or Christ and the individual believer in that church. The "Beloved" of the Song of Solomon is a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the "Bride" of the Song of Solomon is a picture of the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, or the individual believer in that church. As Christ's love for His church "endures unchanging on", so we see how the love of the "bridegroom" of the Song of Songs remains steadfast to the end. But, just as the believer's love for Christ very often ebbs and flows, so we see the "bride" in the Song of Songs sometimes completely devoted to her "beloved", sometimes completely separated from him and a stranger to his presence.

At the very beginning of the Song, as the young bride receives her first real impression of "King Solomon in all his glory", her love for him wells up within her, and her heart and affections go out towards him.

Chapter 1:2ff. "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for thy love is better than wine. Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth &hellip" These very first words of the bride concerning her bridegroom launch us right into the theme of our salvation. Every converted soul this day can go back to that time when they first got that grand glimpse of Christ in all His splendour and in all His saving power. Before that day, He was like the "root out of a dry ground", and was "without form or comliness" to our souls.

But, when the Holy Spirit of God made the spiritually blind eyes to see, then, the spiritually dumb lips sang out to the Prince of the house of David: "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth …" Let us never be backward in speaking in "Rutherfordian" terms of our Saviour. The unconverted person will always misconstrue the believer's love for Christ anyway. Let us never lose any of the joy of the beauty of Jesus just because we are backward in speaking about it. God's gracious Spirit showed you Christ as "altogether lovely" for your soul's need and salvation. It was He who caused you to cry out, just as the young bride cries out again at the beginning of verse 4: – "Draw me, we will run after thee…" He gave you that prospect of Christ that melted your heart and caused you to seek His powerful call and drawing love. "No man cometh unto me except the Spirit draw him," said Jesus. "Draw me," we cry, when Christ's great co-worker in our salvation presents Him to our view.

This Page Title – Sweet Notes from the Song of Songs The Wicket Gate Magazine "A Continuing Witness". Internet Edition number 57 – placed on line November 2005 Magazine web address – www.wicketgate.co.uk