June 25, 2024 - Song of Solomon 1-3

There are various interpretations of the Song of Solomon.  I am convinced that it is a love poem between two lovers.  I mean, hear these statements:  “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!  For your love is better than wine . . . I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. . . . Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.  Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. . . . The voice of my beloved! . . . My beloved speaks and says to me: ‘Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away’ . . .  My beloved is mine, and I am his.”  And the song continues as it depicts a great love between a man and a woman.  However, as great as their love was, how much greater is the love of our Savior toward us!  In fact, he has loved us so greatly that the writers can write:  “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 John 3:1).  “He laid down his life for us” (1 John 3:16). 

I stand amazed in the presence

Of Jesus the Nazarene

And wonder how He could love me

A sinner condemned, unclean

How marvelous, how wonderful

And my song will ever be

How marvelous, how wonderful

Is my Saviour’s love for me.   --Charles H. Gabriel (1905)