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Song of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart waketh:
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled:
For my head is filled with dew,
And my locks with the drops of the night.
The woman in chapter 5 of Song of Solomon is a picture of a backslidden lukewarm believer. She is the bride of Christ, and the man in the chapter is Christ. The honeymoon is over and she is in the house that He has provided for them to live in together. He has been working long hours for her until his head is filled with due v2. Because He is late home she begins to think that He no longer loves her, so she doesn’t sit up watching and waiting for Him to come home. Instead, she puts off her coat, washes her feet, locks the door and goes to bed and falls asleep. She is not living an immoral lifestyle. She has not committed adultery. She has not got involved, or been caught sleeping with another man, but she is sleeping. She has an awakened heart, but she is sleeping on her own. She has lost interest in her Lord.
Then He comes to His own house and finds that the door is locked. He knocks and calls for her to open the door. The obstacle that came between them was a locked door and it's her Lack of trust that causes her to lock Him out. Lack of trust sets a barrier between the believer and Christ and brings spiritual sleep. Sleeping believers will not consider Him until He knocks on the obstacle that hinders the relationship. He didn't attempt to enter by force or use abusive language, because He still loves her and therefore He uses a method that He knows will draw her to Him and make her willing to love Him and not divorce Him. He commanded her to open to Him and called her by the believer’s titles, "my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled v2."
She knows His voice and she knows exactly what He said, but she is slow to act because she is comfortable and so she complains that she has put off her coat and washed her feet and as to her flesh she is clean and unwilling to get up and go to the door to defile herself v3.
Then her Lord began to act and put His hand by the hole in the door and she is moved with compassion for Him. He applied sweet smelling myrrh from His lips to the lock and she caught the fragrance. She rose up to open the door to Him, as her hands dropped with myrrh, but He has withdrawn Himself and is gone. She sought Him but could not find Him. She called Him but He gave her no answer.
Her spiritual condition is similar to those in the church of the Laodiceans,
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
As she called and searched for Him, the watchmen or policemen of the city found her and smote her and took away her veil. They thought she was a harlot roaming the streets of Jerusalem at night looking for a lover. They tried to silence her. Those who try to silence a seeker of Jesus are themselves unbelievers.
She made the daughters of Jerusalem swear that if they found Him, to tell Him she was lovesick. They said to her, what is your beloved more than another beloved you beautiful woman that you so charge us?
To answer their question, she begins to paint a picture of Him by using imagery. She says, "my beloved is white and ruddy." She begins with white, symbolising His glory and secondly she says He is ruddy. Ruddy is the translation of the Hebrew word "adom" meaning red, a reminder of the first man, Adam. Christ is the second Adam. He is white and ruddy, both God and man.
As she continues to paint the picture, she says "He is the chiefest among ten thousand." As far as she is concerned there is no one like Him, she must find Him, so she searches for Him with all her heart.
Then she begins to describe the features of His head. She says "His head is as the most fine gold." He is crowned King of Kings.
She says, "His locks are bushy, and black as a raven." Meaning he is always fresh and never grows old and gray. He is the same yesterday today and forever.
She says "His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, and fitly set."
When He was outside the door He called her a dove, now she says He has doves eyes. They are like two doves with eyes for each other.
She says, "His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers:" She knows His cheeks. She has been with Him cheek to cheek in the past and now she wants to be close to Him again.
She says, "His lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh." The words that fall from His lips are pure; she got them on the handles of the lock v5. She handled the sweet smelling myrrh of His words and it was this that unlocked the obstacle that separated them. She has found the key to recovery of the relationship, but she hasn't got Him back yet.
She says, “His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl:”
The fingers of His hands are like rods of gold set in precious stone. The rods are straight, a picture of open hands. His hands are open, not a closed fist.
His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
The word “belly” is the same Hebrew word as is translated “bowels” v4, meaning entrails (compassion) His belly is as bright polished ivory. Ivory is only available by the shedding of blood, a picture of the sacrifice of Christ. Sapphires are symbolic of heaven. Exodus 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Song of Solomon 5:15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold:
His legs are strong enough to carry His bride from the wilderness up home.
The sockets of fine gold are His feet.
We see that He has a gold head v11, gold fingers v14 and gold feet v15. These are the parts that were attacked on the cross.
She had a rather turbulent relationship because of lack of trust. She lacked faith, but praise the Lord there is no divorce with Christ for those who He has chosen. It’s until death us do part and that is never. It is everlasting life, He attracted her back to the point where she was delighted to proclaim, “yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem,” 5:16. And “I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine,” 6:3.
She said in 8:4. “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.” She charges them not to do anything that would draw her away and mar the relationship, to which they replied, “Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?” v5.
It is never a good idea to bolt the door to Christ and refuse to open it because of our own preconceived ideas. We should pay attention to His word, realizing that He has our best interests at heart. We read in Acts 16:14 “And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.”
How did they know the Lord opened her heart? It was because she attended to the word. Anyone who attends to the word has an open heart.
When we lean on our own understanding, the relationship becomes marred and we are headed for a most unpleasant journey in the darkness of the night and stripped of our testimony. We will not be comfortable until we begin to seek Him and repent of our rebellion and realize that He has not been unfaithful and still loves us and is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. Then we can say with confidence, I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, and He will carry us up home from the wilderness and we will have supper together. As we lean upon Him in total dependence and obey His instruction, others will observe us and say. Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon the bridegroom?
1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
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