Jesus in Glory has eyes.  He has physical eyes like you and me.  When Jesus was alive He had physical eyes to see.  John in Rev. 1:14 saw Jesus in his glorious majesty seeing “his eyes were like blazing fire”  bring fear to those in hypocrisy for Jesus can see right through to your heart, but those same eyes that see a sincere heart a heart that loves Jesus then his eyes like blazing fire will fuel the heart to love even more.  Tis a sweet holy flame in His eyes for his Bride.

If we are in sin and Jesus looks at us we may weep like Peter.

If we understand rightly his loving thoughts toward us as we drown in our sin, we cry,  “Lord save me.”

The Bride in the greatest love song ever has a husband with eyes like no other husband, he has eyes like doves, by the water streams, washed in milk   and (fixed with Jewels) or (reposed in their setting)

Song of Songs 5:16

“His eyes are like doves
    by the water streams,
washed in milk,
    mounted like jewels.”

In Context the bride is remembering why her husband is a husband above all others.  In her remembering she gives a description of the greatest type of Christ alive, her “beloved husband and friend.”  Song 5:16

So in context she is desiring the eyes of her husband that is above all other husbands who is her beloved and friend.

So you have the bride recalling the beauty, the moral beauty of her husbands eyes, and recalls by memory, humbling thoughts of her husband to the Daughters of Jerusalem and says of his eyes,

“His eyes are like doves
    by the water streams,
washed in milk,
    mounted like jewels.”  Song of Songs 5:12

Behind his eyes was a godly man with nothing but love to his bride on his mind.  His banner over her was “love” in Song 2:4, experiencing his love made her desire more in Song 2:2.  Every time he looked at her there was love like doves in his eyes. He looked at her only with love because the “Flame of the LORD” Song 8:6 burning in his heart.  His bride was always on his/His mind for doves are faithful to one spouse their whole lives.  They look to no other lover for they are bonded and their eyes are fixed on their lover.

She had doves eyes as well.  Solomon complimented the faithful love she had for him when they were adoring one another, communing in love in Song 1:15  “How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful!  Your eyes are doves.”  True lovers with the Holy Spirit in them have eyes like doves.  

The Holy Spirit descended like a dove onto Christ.  The fruit of the Spirit is Love and “Love” in a Biblical marriage is likened to that of being the very “Flame of the LORD” in Song of Songs 8:6

 

 

 

Therefore, his eyes are filled with love giving her peace and refreshment every time she see’s him.

Why do I say peace and life giving?  You could say some other things that Im sure would fit.  Maybe you could think of some.

The point here is that when she thinks of how she looks at her it gives her similar feelings to that of seeing beautiful streams of water.

(Reviving, thirst quenching, beautiful, delightful, joyous, etc)

She is at perfect peace and rest looking into his eyes and the moral excellency of his character is precious and valuable to her, therefore they are “reposed” or “fixed” there on her.

The immutability of his love is what beautifies his eyes.

The value of his beautiful loving thoughts towards her is expressed by ascribing high worth to them, by comparing them to the most expensive jewels.

Knowing he loves her faithfully during a time when they are apart is the thought she needs to cultivate in order to stay humble or be humbled, thus making her heart more holy and greater love flows producing beautiful lilies in her heart, the garden, for her husband to enjoy.

Solomon having loving eyes toward her should come with some shock.  Solomon took over Israel after his father David died.  David was to kill all the enemies of God and all Israel was to “pity” no enemies and righteously hate them because they were outside a covenant relationship with God.  Today we don’t know who is Christian and who is not although at Church in order to be a member you must confess Christ and give a testimony of His work in your life in order to be a member or get baptized.  But we are to hate no one but the Devil, worldly influences and our flesh.  But the Israelites could righteously hate God’s enemies.   The bride in the Song was an enemy of God and David and her mothers son’s had a righteous hatred toward her.  Song 1:5-6.

Solomon had none of this righteous hatred toward his bride, they were not enemies.  They were friends.  The description in Song 5:12-16 of Solomon is that of her beloved and “friend” they are not enemies.

Song 5:16  “This is my beloved and this is my friend,”

Song of Songs 6:2

The bride knows where her husband is and where he has gone

 

Husbands, this is quite the standard to live up to.  Your wife needs to know that every time she looks into your eyes that there is no hatred or anger towards her.  No wrath or bitterness but only love.  You are to have doves eyes.  Fixed on her alone.  God first, eyes upward, and always on your beloved wife.  That fire should grow.   It is not perfect, but the direction is toward Christlikeness who loved the Church.   The husband above all other husbands had doves eyes,  thoughts of love only toward his bride.  Peace belonged to Solomon.  Peace with his enemies.  His wife was his enemy, Solomon overcomes this enmity by his love.  And his eyes told a beautiful story of how much he loved her.

She would look into his eyes and they were “bathed in milk”

All his thoughts are pure, bathed in milk.  Impure thoughts would not be beautiful, but Solomon’s thoughts where holy and pure guided by the unmeasurable wisdom God gave him.  Image Solomon who would have all the Proverbs in his head!!

You would look into his eyes and wonder what was he thinking?  Nothing evil, for his thoughts swam in the white of the eyes.  All his thoughts were holy.  Clean, pure without mixture of dross.  His eyes were fully bathed in milk.

Reference to the Word of God might be here because milk is oftentimes in Scripture compared to the truths in the Word of God.   Then the fullness of his thoughts being pure due to them being filled with the Word of God and wisdom fueled by the flame of the Lord in his heart.

 

“Bathed in milk”  speaks of the fullness of his/His Love.  His eyes are bathed in milk.  They swim in the white of the eye.  Bathed in milk and fitly placed or beautifully placed with great worth, value, and preciousness.   Precious stones are precious due to their value and desirably thereof.

 

How desirable would it be to have a husband like that?

How much more desirable is Christ, more desirable to be your spiritual Husband, your heavenly Bridegroom.  Solomon’s love to his bride was faithful and fixed in the Song, though at the end of his life, Solomon went astray 1 Kings 11:4.  Jesus is greater than Solomon.  Solomons love eventually failed.  Christ’s love never fails!!  Never, never, never.  Though Solomon in the Song does not sin and is the example of how a husband ought to love his wife, Solomon did fail in his later years, but that does not mean that husbands should not follow his example in the Song of how to love your wife.  Follow Solomon in what he did do right.  He loved his wife.  He praised her Godly character. He was faithful to all his promises.  His name was like perfume poured out. and on and on.  Christ is greater than Solomon in all these aspects.  How much more so ought we to know what Jesus is thinking and feeling about us in order for our love to grow.

Such thoughts of Christ would change a spark into a never-ending flame.  Such thought will warm the heart in difficult trials.  Such a thought would comfort the soul feeling abandoned by God.  Such thoughts will bring God nearer when He’s feeling far.  Delight in the holiness of God’s love oh you guilty sinner.

Who precious would he be to you?

Knowing he loved you like that, would that stir up your love for him, so that when he asks something of you, you prove your love to him/Him by listen quickly and joyfully. Him seeing  your obedience will ravish his heart for seeing someones love to God is the most beautiful sight on earth.

The worthiness of his/His thought toward her were highly treasured by her like Jewels therefore the comparison.

When arguing from Solomon to Jesus, it is easy to see how Solomon loved his wife.  Every look at her was filled with love and it gave her peace as she treasured him/Him.

I wanted to do more on this post, but my mind is going dull.  I didn’t do much editing at all, yet I believe the Spirit was there.  Meaning you got this blog as I meditated on the text.  As the thoughts came, my  “tongue was as a ready writer.” Ps. 45:1

 

Don’t you desire with all your heart to look to see the beauty of Jesus all day and grow in your understand of his love.

I pray LORD, that according to your glorious riches that you would strengthen us with power through Your Spirit in our inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith. And I pray that we, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.  Ephesians 3:16-21

 

The view of which is immediately pleasant to the mind.  His eyes.

 

 

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