# 31 2024 Dev. SS.4:5.The Beauty of Creation! Read all of chapter four first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
SS.4:5 “Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.”
Song of Songs. For centuries this book has been controversial in terms of how to read it. Is this a literal description of human relationships or is it allegorical, a rendering of the relationship of God and Israel or for Christians, Christ and the church? We have seen all three aspects displayed.
SS.4 A woman is being described, she is a simile for the beauty of God’s creation. She is vailed, is she a bride? Yes, it appears so. Israel is the bride. The church is the bride. The bride is always the female part of God’s creation; male and female He created them. In God’s own image! The King is the groom, the relative of Christ, the groom.
Vs.1-7 He. A detailed description of the bride compared to very specific items of God’s creation. Except her lips, mouth and neck. “Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stone, on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.” Is this a description of strength, purpose and determination? On her part, she is not a passive participant. Sometimes Israel was passive, unresponsive, as well as the church of today. Rare is the church with a serious outreach. “Like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies. Until the day breaks and the shadows flee.” A sanctuary, a safe place, comfort from the problems of life so it appears. “You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.” The Church, God’s people, are made perfect and righteous in Christ Jesus.
Vs.8-14 He. “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon.” She, Israel, the church, are not traveling alone through the dangers of this life. “You have stolen my heart my sister, my bride…” what follows is a long intimate description of a lover for beauty of his bride. It is a love story of God’s people, then and God’s people today in Christ. “You are garden locked up my sister, my bride; you are spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.” This and the descriptions of the trees remind us of the garden of Eden, Paradise Lost.
V.15 He, She. “You are (I am) a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.” Here both the groom and the bride are speaking. The living water is unleashed in God choosing of Israel and Christ’s choosing of God’s people today, the church. And the church is mandated to let the living water flow. Amen!
V.16 She. “Awake, north wind, and come south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste Its choice fruits”. Take note, it is his garden. Let the fragrance of the Gospel of Christ spread everywhere so that we may “taste its choice fruits.” Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Amen and Amen!
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