Song of Songs 3 “All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves;
I looked for him but did not find him.
2 I will get up now and go about the city,
through its streets and squares;
I will search for the one my heart loves.
So I looked for him but did not find him.
3 The watchmen found me
as they made their rounds in the city.
“Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
4 Scarcely had I passed them
when I found the one my heart loves.
I held him and would not let him go
till I had brought him to my mother’s house,
to the room of the one who conceived me.
It’s night time and she can’t see him. She is having a nightmare in her sleep.
This is after her having the assurance of him being hers
With her senses she can’t feel him there, from her perception he was gone, light had left her eyes and it was dark, took her doves eyes off the Glory of the Lord in the cloud and put on a snakes eye and venomous tongue. Pride on top of the mountains of assurance. Her perception of him was gone, her perception of herself grew to high to fast, watching for the first rising of pride or if not seeing a balance then get one. go back to “Dark am I, yet lovely” and see where you need to confess and repent of.
“Looked for him but did not find him” “Get up now” she looked in her reasoning and found him not she needed to get up and do something, whatever it took til you hold him tight 3:4.
Meditation alone won’t find him now you must take action.
You might need to spend some time seeing God grander, greater, Holy, Love something of Him greater and you lower. You may need to plow the valley of humiliation by humbling yourself under the mighty hand of God.
3:1-5
Because of the nature of the Song and it’s ability to lead you into the presence of God quite fast and in an overwhelmingly addicting manner, your opinion of yourself, your righteousness, power, knowledge and fast growth may cause spiritual pride to arise. Okay, not “may” cause spiritual pride, but will cause it if you don’t stay humble. The nightmare is put here as a help and guide. To guide those who have lost the one they love, to get him back. And to warn others that they deserve desertion for getting to high an opinion of self. Therefore a warning to not go to far to fast or you will lose connection with the one you love. You may have a nightmare. Everyone needs to learn this that is running with the flame of God in them.
3:1 “Looked for Him but He was not there”
What was her sin?
He was gone from His presence and she didn’t care enough to do something about it. Love desires the strictest union and communion with the Beloved. Not doing anything about sensing his absence displays a lack of Love to and for Him. “Let them be with me where I am.” Jesus said. Love delights in nearness of the lover. This is mutual. We want to be near Him and He wants us to draw near to Him, herein is mutual delight shared between the two. They had both expressed a mutual delight in Him being hers and her being His.
3:2 “I will”
She is willing and resolved to perform all those duties that belong to her, she can’t bear another night with her lover gone.
She can’t keep going another night without him there. His presence is missed. The flame in her will not allow the one her heart loves to be absent for very long. Her love could not, was not quenched so she goes in search for him. She resolves “I will”
May we all resolve to do whatever it takes to have Christ close to us!
3:3 ” The watchmen”
Basically she thinks she has lost her salvation due to sin. She thinks by her doing good works she could earn God’s favor again and feel saved, safe and happy. You can’t earn Gods favor Christ purchased grace and mercy to come your way from God. But the watchmen help her out. Faith and Repentance is the quickest way to assurance of salvation. Faith in Christ alone and repent. Just after listening to our pastors and mentors will we soon find Christ.
One of the best ways to have the best most intimate, “tightly held” relationship with Christ is to listen to those who watch over our souls. Parents, pastors, teachers, the Bible etc.
3:4
Like Fasting. Everything tastes so good after not having it for so long. Now that you have Him keep Him, abide in Him, His will not your own. If you stumble, get back up with “Waves of Love” “Dark, yet lovely” “Follow sheep” “Perfect love casts out fear” “prize, value, esteem Him” remember romans 8:28-29. “Show him my lovely face that I learned to have in 1:5” Let Him hear my voice
Til she had brought him back to the place she had been, to a place where she felt comfortable and no fear of losing him would cross her mind. At her mother house she felt safe, comfortable and happy. She wants that same feeling and she wants him so she holds him tight. She does all she can to not sin so that their relationship can be a close as possible.
If she thinks she has actually lost him. Image what she is thinking and feeling here in the nightmare. If Solomon is not hers and he has left her then she is back in slavery, hard labor, apart from union with Solomon she is nothing, not exalted, low, miserable, in bitter slavery without him.
3:5 “Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love
until it so desires.”
(My notes on this warning are right here)
Song of Songs 3:6-11
6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness
like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and incense
made from all the spices of the merchant?
7 Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
escorted by sixty warriors,
the noblest of Israel,
8 all of them wearing the sword,
all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
prepared for the terrors of the night.
9 King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
he made it of wood from Lebanon.
10 Its posts he made of silver,
its base of gold.
Its seat was upholstered with purple,
its interior inlaid with love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, 11 come out,
and look, you daughters of Zion.
Look on King Solomon wearing a crown,
the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
the day his heart rejoiced.
3:6 “Coming up from the desert”
How can he doubt whether he stands in a childlike relation to God, when he plainly sees a childlike union between God and his soul, and hence does boldly, and as it were, naturally and necessarily cry, “Abba Father”? And whereas the Apostle says, “the Spirit bears witness with our spirits” [Romans 8:16]; by “our spirit” here, is meant our conscience, which is called the spirit of ma
She was laboring in the hot sun of the desert Song 1:5-6 and now is coming up out of that hard labor into the promised land, flowing with milk and honey, and at total peace with all God’s enemies. ( you would think that there would have been a whole lot of witnessing and discipleship and spiritual conviction and zeal during his reign.)
The desert is a metaphor for our time of testing. We are coming up out of our time of testing while looking forward to the crowning of Solomon a type of Christ who will have more people joyfully obeying Him in the new heaven and earth as He reigns as “King of Kings and Lord of Lords”. “And every knee will bow….”
3:11 “King”
On the wedding day, it was traditional for the man to wear the crown this symbolizing his authority in the marriage. Also every time she obeyed him was her recognition of him as her king and if a wife obeys her husband she is also obeying God and metaphorically speaking she is crowning God King in her life every time she obeys her husband.
“King” Notice the “Behold” in Chapter 3 2x “behold” behold the bride and behold the king. In the earlier chapter they court and get engaged. Chapter 3 is the bride showing up to the wedding where Solomon is crowned King. So also at the beginning of your relationship with God, He is not King over everything in your life but you look forward to day when he will be because you put Christ as your king and together you life is getting cleaned up. He is your King but His rule is not in every corner of your life and heart.
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