King Solomon wrote 1005 poems. The one that made it into our Bibles today is titled “Solomon’s song of song”. It was the best poem he wrote. It stood out above all the rest therefore it is the Song of songs. Clearly it is a love poem.
You have a newly born again Gentile slave girl falling in love with a type of Jesus Christ, the young newly anointed Messiah of Israel to the point of fainting on their first date due to the overwhelming power of love. Then she lets us know what it felt like when he proposed. Then what it felt like to be away from him and how that brought them closer. Then the wedding day and night. Both give us a glimpse of what it felt like for two virgin to make love for the first time. Then her love sleeps temporarily and she suffers greatly for it. She finds him in the garden where he praises her inner beauty which is now more beautiful than before. She is now not only a queen but morally speaking she is the queen of queens. She gets a peace that passes her understand while serving the King of peace. She labors hard and and love is roused up. They make love again and this time it’s better than before and she lets us know it. After some time in marriage the two have had a mighty flame of love from God burning in each other’s heart in a way that made the two one in every way. This is all due to the superlative characteristics of love. She communicates verbally her feelings to Solomon about what it felt like to be in love and get closer and closer to him. Solomon burst his words into a poem so that.
This is the question “Why did Solomon write this poem?”
Surely we see both loving and being loved.
Surely the superlative characteristics of love are both described and illustrated to us throughout the whole poem.
Surely he praises her inner and outer beauty more than saying anything else.
The joys of marriage are recorded. The ups and downs of marriage are recorded.
All these things and more are what I call either main or chief purposes. Ultimate purpose. Means to those ends. Subordinate means.
What the song does can be seen as a purpose. What the Song ultimately does is it’s ultimate purpose. It ultimately Glorifies God and is for our good.
So the ultimate purpose is really one and not to separate ends for we are included in the idea of God glorifying Himself. God is clearly glorified because the superlatively strong love came from God so God is glorified in man’s dependence on God for true love. When we get a right and better idea of love we also get a higher and clearer idea of God who is love, hence God is glorified when Him and His love is manifested, seen and delighted in. They say of Solomon and his love “We will praise your love more than wine.” Song 1:4
So as a whole, the love poem ultimately Glorifies God and is for our good or happiness.
A chief means of ultimately Glorifying God and doing something good for all is to write a love poem. Recording a Messiah’s love to all nations by making peace. Recording how a Gentile is accepted as a spiritual sister in the Holy City of Jerusalem and their love to each other. A king’s love to his people and their love to him. It’s not just a husband and wife love poem. Even though the majority of the verses deal with the couple getting closer to each other, there still is a subtheme of love to all nations, to a Holy city and to a Gentile slave girl.
The work of God in the hearts of all believers.
Her main goal was to let Solomon know her great love to him. She wanted to share her most intimate thoughts about him to him. These thoughts and feelings are the “old choice fruits” that she had “saved up for him” to say at the proper time. Song 7:13.
Then wanting to share their feelings with everyone else, the best way is for Solomon to put their words, actions and feelings in a poem. Thus God would be glorified and the people would receive something good that would make them happy and happier.
After knowing all her thoughts and feelings from the first spark of love in her heart until now, he then writes the love poem in the first person perspective. From her view. He knew her so well he was able to word it as if the woman wrote it
To share their feelings about each other, the people in the city and all nations.
Did you get an idea of what it felt like for them to fall in love with each other? What did it feel like? Were their feelings just shared with us and we only know about them in an intellectual way or intellectually known by a real felt experience so that the whole heart is involved in the sharing of ones feelings with other’s?
Love must be felt in order for a more clear, brighter and truer idea of love to be in the whole heart. Love must be felt to be understood or known properly in the mind. Being sensed in the body helps as well.
What does it feel like for Solomon to have feelings for a Gentile slave girl with true love in her heart? One act of love from her to him both steals and ravishes his heart!
What does it feel like for her to fall deeper and deeper in love with Israel’s current Messiah and King? It’s better than wine! Song 1:2
Now if we come away from reading the love poem knowing by experience and sensing a love in our hearts from God and to other’s that is better than wine then her or their love was shared with us. We got a taste of love that was better than wine as we got a true, truer or brighter idea of love by sensing it. For the first time or in greater depths, heights, widths and lengths.
Did you feel it?
Did you feel what she was feeling?
Do you have an idea of what she felt like by knowing what joy and peace you feel knowing Jesus loves you?
Solomon was a type of Jesus Christ. She fell in love with and was loved by a type of Jesus Christ. Solomon was like Jesus Christ. So ladies what does it feel like to fall in love with someone who is like Jesus Christ? Like falling in love with a true Christian man! It is better than wine. Well now you know what it felt like for her. You can argue from your relationship to hers. Or imagining it in the mind and feeling it in the heart as you behold the moral and natural beauties of the type of Jesus Christ in the poem.
My point is that if you wanted to share or communicate your feelings to someone else, then in order for a better communication the receiver must feel it!
I can tell you I was the happiest man alive but you will have the faintest idea if only you imagined me being the happiest man alive. But if you know what it’s like to be one of the happiest persons alive then you would have a better idea of what I felt. The essence of love we felt is the same. Some things in some degree would be the same with my feeling and yours. Yet at the same time the degree and idea of love will differ in many respects.
As I read, meditate and understand, I get some idea of what it felt like for her to love and be loved by someone who was very much like The Coming Messiah, the Anti-type, Jesus Christ, The Ultimate Messiah, who is “greater than Solomon”.
When a true and holy love is felt as someone shares their feelings then their goal in sharing them is complete or perfected ( “when we love one another” 1 John) Which is the work of the Holy Spirit to help us “partake of the nature of God”, who “is love”.
Maranatha
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