Love conversing
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📚How beautiful are your sandaled feet, O prince’s daughter!
The curve of your thighs are like jewels,
the work of the hands of a skillful
craftsman.
2 📚Your navel is like a round goblet,
not lacking mixed wine.
Your waist is like a heap of wheat
encircled with lilies.
3 📚Your two breasts are like two young
gazelles that are twins.
4 📚Your neck is like a tower of ivory.
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-Rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
which looks toward Damascus.
5 📚Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and the hair of your head is like purple;
the king is held captive by its tresses.
6 📚How beautiful and how pleasing
you are, O love, with your charms!
7 📚Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts like its clusters of fruit.
8 📚I said, “I will go up to the palm tree,
I will take hold of its boughs”.
Now may your breasts be like clusters
of the vine,
and the fragrance of your breath like apples,
9 📚And the roof of your mouth is like
7:1-9 Song 4:1-15; 6:4-9. The true church is a “prince’s daughter”, perfectly formed (1 Cor 12:14-27; Eph 4:15-16). Every part (person) is placed carefully by God in the Body to contribute to the beauty and usefulness of the whole. He loves to gaze on her and to describe her loveliness in His eyes. The relationship between husband and wife is the most intimate in the world, and this is the relationship that the Holy Spirit has used a number of times in the Bible as a symbol of that loving, intimate, spiritual relationship between God and His own special people. There is no deeper love, no more intimate fellowship, no greater delight than in this relationship between God who is Spirit with His spiritual people. This is suggested by the language of this passage.⚜
the best wine for my beloved, that flows gently over the lips of those who are asleep.
Bride
10 📚I am my beloved’s,
and his desire is for me.
7:10 See Song 2:16. In the closing words of v 9 and in this verse she expresses her full assurance that the wine of her love is acceptable to him, that they are one in heart.⚜
11 📚Come, my beloved, let us go out into
the field.
Let us spend the night in the villages.
12 📚Let us get up early to the vineyards.
Let us see if the vine flourishes,
whether the tender grape appears,
and the pomegranates bud.
There I will give you my love.
7:11-12 In Song 2:1-13 He calls her into the fields. Here she invites him. If the fields and villages speak of God’s work in the world we can learn from these two references that Christ first calls us to this work, then His love in our hearts moves us to desire it and to pray that He go with us.⚜
13 📚The mandrakes give a fragrance,
and at our gates are all kinds
of choice fruits, new and old,
which I have stored up for you,
O my beloved.
7:13 When there is love there is a desire to give gifts and to give oneself to the loved one. This is what love between two persons is all about – mutual self-giving. Our love for Christ, or lack of it, will be measured by what we give Him or what we withhold from Him. Believers are not to store up for themselves but for Christ. What they would keep for themselves they will lose. What they store up for Christ they will keep and enjoy with Him forever. Our fruit should be all for Him (John 15:1-2; Rom 7:4).⚜