Book of Jeremiah
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Changing His simile, the Bridegroom continues:
Your cheeks are comely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels,
We will make you ornaments of gold,
studded with silver.
Song of Solomon 1:10-11
The bride is not only beautiful and useful to her Lord but she is also adorned, and it is His delight to add to her adornments. Nor are His gifts perishable flowers or trinkets destitute of intrinsic value: The finest of gold, the purest of silver, and the most precious and lasting of jewels are the gifts of the royal Bridegroom to His bride, and these, braided into her hair, increase the pleasure of the One who has bestowed them.
In Verse 12, the bride responds,
While the king was on his coach,
my nard gave forth its fragrance.
It is in His presence and through His grace that whatever fragrance and beauty may be found in us comes forth. Of Him as its source, through Him as its instrument, and to Him as its end, is all that is gracious and divine. But He is better than all that His grace works in us.
My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh
that lies between my breasts,
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
in the vineyard of En-gedi.
Song of Solomon 1:13-14
All is well when our eyes are filled with His beauty and our hearts are occupied with Him. In the measure in which this is true of us we will recognize the correlative truth that His great heart is occupied with us. Note the response of the Bridegroom:
Ah, you are beautiful, my love;
ah, you are beautiful;
your eyes are doves.
Song of Solomon 1:15
How can the Bridegroom truthfully use such words of one who recognizes herself as "black........like the tents of Kedar? And still stronger are the Bridegroom's words in 4:7:
You are altogether beautiful, my love;
there is no flaw in you.
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From Hudson Taylor's book - Union and Communion - a devotional study on How the Song of Solomon Reveals a Believers Union with Jesus Christ.
Your cheeks are comely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels,
We will make you ornaments of gold,
studded with silver.
Song of Solomon 1:10-11
The bride is not only beautiful and useful to her Lord but she is also adorned, and it is His delight to add to her adornments. Nor are His gifts perishable flowers or trinkets destitute of intrinsic value: The finest of gold, the purest of silver, and the most precious and lasting of jewels are the gifts of the royal Bridegroom to His bride, and these, braided into her hair, increase the pleasure of the One who has bestowed them.
In Verse 12, the bride responds,
While the king was on his coach,
my nard gave forth its fragrance.
It is in His presence and through His grace that whatever fragrance and beauty may be found in us comes forth. Of Him as its source, through Him as its instrument, and to Him as its end, is all that is gracious and divine. But He is better than all that His grace works in us.
My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh
that lies between my breasts,
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
in the vineyard of En-gedi.
Song of Solomon 1:13-14
All is well when our eyes are filled with His beauty and our hearts are occupied with Him. In the measure in which this is true of us we will recognize the correlative truth that His great heart is occupied with us. Note the response of the Bridegroom:
Ah, you are beautiful, my love;
ah, you are beautiful;
your eyes are doves.
Song of Solomon 1:15
How can the Bridegroom truthfully use such words of one who recognizes herself as "black........like the tents of Kedar? And still stronger are the Bridegroom's words in 4:7:
You are altogether beautiful, my love;
there is no flaw in you.
_________________
From Hudson Taylor's book - Union and Communion - a devotional study on How the Song of Solomon Reveals a Believers Union with Jesus Christ.