Title of a Love Poem
In this section we will go over 1 The translation of the title 2 Questions as to who is the author 3 What is Solomon’s Song of Songs? 4 Ingredients for the best love poem
1 The translation. Not much difference at all in choice of translations. Solomon wrote his best love poem and titled it “Solomon’s Song of Songs” 1:1. The translation. I suppose of all the verses this one is least debated. Which makes it easy to start with what is clear. This means that Solomon wrote it. This Scripture is God breathed, meaning that both God and Solomon are the authors.
2 Did a woman write it? Because much of the poem is in the first person language of his first wife, some think it was written by a woman and the title then is translated “The Song of Songs given to Solomon”. So how did Solomon get to know the most intimate thoughts and feelings of the woman he courted, proposed to and married? It wasn’t until after 15 years of study that I was able to answer this question. Any confusion can be cleared up by reading Song 7:12-13 along with the entirety of the poem. Some time after they have been married a while Naamah wants to go out to the vineyards with Solomon and tell him what she was feeling and thinking at various times when love inflamed her heart, both “new and old” times of “love” that she has “treasured up” for him,
12 “Let us rise early and go to the vineyards;
Let us see whether the vine has flourished
And its blossoms have opened,
And whether the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes have given forth fragrance;
And over our doors are all choice fruits,
Both new and old,
Which I have treasured up for you, my beloved.”
I take this to mean that she wants him to go with her to the vineyards where “There I will give you my love.” There she is going to share her feelings with him. This is when Solomon learned what she was thinking and feeling at his first anointing when she fell in love with him. This is when he learned all the verses that were he thoughts and feelings. Then Solomon put them in a poem from her perspective of what it felt like to become one with him, united by love.
3 What is Solomon’s Song of Songs? 1 It is a Song 2 It is Scripture 3 It is poetry
1 It is a Song. Wrote to be sung. Sometime after Solomon wrote it you would hear people singing it. Since it is a love song it is likely that it was sung at weddings. And since it is Scripture it could also be sung as an act of worship. Songs were written for the ultimate purpose of Glorifying God and our enjoyment of Him.
It is a Song. Some people have a hard time seeing a flow to the poem and think that the title Song of Songs means that this love song is a collection of love songs. No, it is clear that the title says it is a “Song” singular.
2 It is Scripture. The Jews rarely debate it’s place in the Cannon and neither have the Christians. Though whether or not the word YHWH or God is in the poem is debated, the fact that it is God breathed Scripture is no doubt. It being Scripture means that the words are holy. Set apart for our spiritual good and God’s glory. Though the language on their wedding night and in Chapter 7 gets quite intimate to the point it could be X rated, it is still Scripture and profitable for teaching, correcting, rebuking and training in righteousness. Profitable for teaching us what love is, correcting wrong ideas of love, rebuking those who know better yet won’t change, and training those who have learned what love is and are loving God and other’s and have been trained by this love poem to live a righteous life 2 Tim. 3:16. Since it is a love song then it teaches us doctrine about love for “love is…” Song 8:6-7.
3 It is poetry. Love Poetry. Illustrating the Love of God in the union and communion of a ish and isha. An emotional impact is more important than a historical narrative. To raise the affection of the hearer to the greatest as long as the degree of affection is consistent with truth. It relies on the emotional impact to convey the idea.
4 It is superlative in nature. It is the best love song Solomon wrote. What makes it the best love poem? It helps us understand and feel what love is better than any of his other love songs. It serves it’s purpose better than the other’s. Line up 1005 songs 1 Kings 4:32 that Solomon wrote and this one stands above all the rest. I have listened to lots of love songs and as a non believer I like the bands “Chicago” and “Air Supply” because they wrote love songs. But even my favorite love songs don’t even come close to the one Solomon wrote.
One of the main reasons it is better than the rest is because Solomon had immeasurable wisdom which allowed him to write with such genius. This wisdom would allow him to get better and better to the point that it would seem that it couldn’t get much better. Once you have a masterpiece above all the other’s, I suppose it would be obvious. It would stand out clearly as better and each one you wrote after that may not quite reach the greatness of The Song of Songs. Thus, you get the title, “Solomon’s Song of Songs”.
1 His experiential knowledge of the Love of God in him, was greater than any other husband. Song 5:9-16. The greater the lover the more beautiful the sight, the more beautiful the sight, it brings more light, more humility, greater desires enlarging the heart and preparing it for more or a greater sense of it’s height, depth, breadth, degree and length. And repeat as you abide in love.
See and delight in the holiness of God reflected in the face of Christ Solomon Song 5:9-16. This is what transformed her and it will transform you. He is the most desirable king!! If you ever wanted a wise and loving king, set apart for God, then Solomon would be the one you would want. A beloved and friend above all other’s. Altogether lovely and desirable. No flaw only moral excellencies everywhere you look from head to toe. The image and glory of God. He has been locked on her and her beauty, can’t keep his eye off his excellent wife for she is his glory! “he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of man.” 1 Cor. 11:7.
My point here is that in order for us to have the highest and greatest view of love you have to have the best lovers. Some husband may love their wife, but Solomon loved his wife more. Solomon proved his love to his first wife, Naamah, over and over again as he wisely called her ever closer by showing her his affection for her in the praise of her glory!
What in the poem would Solomon have to know by experience to write about love? Song 4:10 “How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine” experiential knowledge of a love that was better than wine.”
What gave her weight was the degree of love she had for God and other’s. The beauty of her holy heart is that it had love in it. Without love there in no beautiful heart. The greater her love the more beautiful her heart! The more beautiful her heart the greater her glory! She is his glory! Her beauty by the end is breathtaking. The flame of God in her is burning the dross away, burning the lies and enlightening the understanding to spiritual truths and inclining her heart to love. That inclination of her heart to love and do good is the moral beauty of her soul. She was the most beautiful of all women Song 1:8.
Okay, you have a husband of immeasurable wisdom and love powerful enough to unite your heart with his better than any other husband who marries the “most beautiful woman” inside and out!! Song 1:8.
Solomon knew better than any other husband what it felt like to be loved by an excellent wife above all other’s. Revealed by God to Naamah, in the person and work of her husband Christ Solomon in Ps. 72, 2 Sam. 7:21-16,at Gihon “anointed” meaning Messiah in Hebrew and Christ in Greek 1 Kings 1:45-47.
Solomon was not only the wises king but he was the best most loving husband for in every act of wisdom there is love and he had an immeasurable amount of wisdom. Imagine being married to a man that had as much wisdom as the immeasurable sand of the sea.
What would be needed in order to write a love poem that helped you get a pure holy sweet sense of love so that by taste you learn what it is, that it is “better”, strong to unite, it’s jealousy intense. It’s Source from infinitely beautiful God. Unquenchable and priceless.
“Spiritual understanding” is needed for the soul to taste reasons it is better. A new heart that now has the ability to sense a love that is “better” than wine. A communication of love to the soul gives it a new taste, a new ability of the heart to taste what it never had before. An enlarged heart. An enlarged heart is one that can run in love and obeying God’s commandments. Psalm 119:32. Love communicated to the soul brings with it power to enlarge the heart. “Transforming” it from one level of glory to another 2 Cor. 13:8. Love’s nature participated in by the soul (2 Pt. 1:4) helps the soul to become more loving by growing it’s capacity to love. Making it capable of more love by increasing desire. By enlarging the mind and will in love. Making the mind and will holy, beautiful and acting as one in love with God. Taking it from one level of beauty to another. These levels of beauty can be seen in the life of Naamah as she got closer to her husband, Christ Solomon, he praised her inner and outer beauties. See the progress of her inner beauties growing in each praise. She is his glory. He is the image and glory of God she has been beholding and delighting in. 2 Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” Her face was veiled. Naamah, when she beheld the glory of God in the face of her someone like Jesus Christ, the immeasurably wise and loving, Christ Solomon.
Reciprocated love seems more beautiful than one sided.
The genius of writing the best love poem in the first person for those to sing it as an act of worship versus just writing about it!?
1 More oxytocin release which gives the pleasure in group singing! The greater the pleasure and more vigorous the holy jealousy the greater it is felt in the body. Love is not the pleasure in the body. Love is in the soul. Pleasure in the body is felt from the release of oxytocin and other hormones. This good feeling in the body helps to move along the soul that is abiding in love to love even more. How does an increase in the body feeling good help worship?
Clearly love can bring about a level of “toxification”.
Drink water from your own cistern
And fresh water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be for you alone,
And not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
And be glad in the wife of your youth.
19 As a loving hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be intoxicated always with her love.
20 So why should you, my son, be intoxicated with a strange woman
And embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of Yahweh,
And He watches all his tracks” Prov. 5:15-21.
This shows love affecting the body of someone’s soul that is on fire with love. He is to be intoxicated with God using your beloved wife to reflect back to you His love being made complete.
Proverbs 27:9 “Oil and incense make the heart glad, So counsel from the soul is sweet to his friend.”
5 It illustrated God’s design for oneness in marriage better than the rest.
6 It moves the affections better than any of the other love songs. This song moved the emotions better. “And the duty of singing praises to God, seems to be appointed wholly to excite and express religious affections. No other reason can be assigned, why we should express ourselves to God in verse, rather than in prose, and do it with music, but only, that such is our nature and frame, that these things have a tendency to move our affections.” JE RA 44
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Saved in 2000 at age 27. Nearly immediately I fell in love with the Song and grew very fast the first two years memorizing large portions of scripture purifying my mind the started chewing on meat to soon and struggled for 12 years and Christ has me on track like always but I just took the long way around and now I love leading others closer to Christ by seeing His love reflected in Solomons love for an enemy slave girl.
I have experienced God's love to me in the Song in ways that words can't express. There are many portion of the Word where she experiences extra ordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit of God. If you have a burning desire for a close intimate relationship with God by experiencing His Love to you over and over again at greater and greater heights, depths, lengths and breaths then The Song of Songs is where you need to be.
I can help you with this process of Growing in the experience of God's love. As of 7-23-16 I have experienced everything prior to chapter 8. The Song of Song is progressive in experience. Meaning that if you are mature then you can experience the joys and extraordinary outpourings of God's Love shed abroad in your heart.
If you are not so mature then the delights in the first chapter of the Song will satisfy your thirst for experiencing the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Many Christian are living in sin because they do not know how to experience God's love and get hooked on Loving Him. It feels good to be loved and to love Him. His burden is not heavy and His yoke is light, Jesus said in Matt. 10:28
I believe God wants to use me to help beautify His Bride through the Song of Solomon.
If you see the book literally you will not understand nor grasp the Love God has for you. If you see the book and the verses in it relating to Christ's love to you then I would love to show you how to experience this Love to the fullest. I will pray for you daily and guide you every step of the way.
16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, 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 you 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.
I grew up going to church but was a hypocrite. I lived my life how I chose but went to church on Sunday because my family went.
Mom and Dad divorced when I was about 5.
About this time I was sexually abused by "Bob" a made up name. This incident changed my life for the worst. I had no clue how to deal with it.
As I got older I grew in my hatred for Bob. I didn't blame anyone of my family because I was to young to know any better. Some of what happened during the abuse was in a bathroom. So overtime I would use the bathroom and look at my private parts that night would replay in my mind. My hatred for Bob would continue to grow each time.
Now I know this only happened to me one night. I can't image the pain other's go through who have had this happen to them over and over. Even as I write this now I cry with many tears for those hurting. God love you even though you may not know it or feel it. Go to Him in your time of need.
I was a really bad teenager. I only cared about myself and not even my family. I always came first in my mind. Even at the expense of hurting others. I was growing in my hatred for God by now.
I was going to church and was learned that God was in control. I thought well, if God was in control then He must have let me be sexually abused. I didn't understand this, How could a good and loving God allow this. I hated Him for it. My hatred for Bob grew as well. I was still using the bathroom and memories kept coming back. My heart grew even harder for Bob and God. As far as I was concerned God would have nothing to do with my life so I lived even worse. I thought I would be in jail or dead and I really didn't care, I thought it could be much worse than reliving your painful past over and over again. Little did I know that God's plan later would be to use these events to give me a burning passion for the closest most intimate love relationship with Himself through Christ mainly through the love poem in the Song of Songs in the Bible.
I remember hating Bob so much that the only thing that would relieve my pain was actually thinking he would suffer forever for what he did. I grew so much in my hatred for him that I had to continue to think that he would get even worse than what I imaged before. After some time I would only be relieved of hatred for him unless I thought he would burn in a hotter and hotter hell for all the suffering he put me through.
I never told my mom or family what happened, although I think some of them knew something had happened.
I grew up quite rebellious and even went to jail at the age of 20. I was living the fast life pursuing all my sinful desires and wanting more. It never seemed to be enough. I was quite happy in my sin but I just wanted more of it.
I lived life thinking I would die at a young age, riding motorcycle and living on the edge put me in the hospital many times and I should have been dead.
California at age 26.
I moved to California for a job opportunity at the age of 27. While trying to figure out what radio stations to program in my car, I ran across a RC Sproul talking about "people who have the faith that saves and people who only say that have faith" only the people who have the faith that saves will go to heaven. I thought "I don't think I have the faith that saves because my life was so bad." I searched the scriptures to try to get this faith. I found a church and thought people there could help me get this faith that saves. All along God kept showing me how sinful I was and that I deserved punishment from Him for living my life hating Him.
One weekend I read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John desperately trying to find out how to get this faith that saves. By now I knew that if you had the faith that saves that Jesus would be saving you from a life of sin. I still liked my sin and Jesus sure wasn't saving me from a life of sin, so I rightly concluded that I didn't have the faith that saves.
By the time I got to John, I saw "believe" everywhere. John 3:16 and other verses and wow the whole book was written so that you may believe. John 20:31 "these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." So at night I would pray "I believe Jesus died for me, I believe, I believe. This was just an intellectual belief. I knew that in history and the Bible that Jesus died for everyone, so I believed it. But this belief did not change my life.
I would go on night after night saying the same prayer only to wake up the next day wanting to fulfill my sinful desires. The prayer wasn't working so I started to word it different each time hoping some prayer would work. After about 2 weeks of this I was fed up with it all, nothing was happening. I still was living in my sin and wanted more of it. A Christian hates their sin and does something about it, and certainly they don't continue to make plans to sin. The prayers weren't working so I gave up. I thought to myself "God, I tried with all my might, I searched the Scriptures, went to church, read the Bible and prayed all to no avail. If Im going to be saved your going to have to do it because I tried."
So I quit praying but still the Bible kept calling me so I read more. 3 Days later I was laying in a tanning bed and God convicted me really hard that I had offended Him by the life I was living. I was so scared of God, where could I run. You can't hide from God. It seemed like forever that I was under these terrors of being punished by a Holy Angry God. This lasted about 10 minutes then this is how I understood it. God let me understand that all that anger that He had for me for all my sin should come my way but He had poured that anger out on Jesus 2,000 years ago. I immediately started weeping an couldn't stop for about 20 minutes. All the sins that I could think of I confessed for that 20 minutes one after another after another, I was so sorrowful and grieved it physically hurt inside.
After I stopped crying I thought that was the weirdest thing that ever happened. I walked out of the tanning salon and stood outside and everything seemed so beautiful, the tree's, the birds, even the air seemed pleasant. Now I was really wondering what was going on.
I pondered all of this as I drove to work that day. I brought my Bible to work and was thinking what am I doing, I want to take my Bible to work so I can read it. As soon as I got to work I started reading my Bible. I couldn't believe what I was reading!! It all was so wonderful. It felt so good to just read my Bible. My client showed up and as I was training them the only thing I could think about was getting back to my Bible. I read all night and slept about 2 hours and was reading again.
I had sinful things in my apartment and I rounded everything evil up and threw it in the garbage. It was weird I was thinking but it felt good so I left it all in the garbage. I called my girlfriend to break it up and she thought I had another girl, I said no, I just think this is wrong we shouldn't be sleeping together. She didn't understand so I told her I was a Christian now and she still thought I had another girlfriend. She said "Im glad your a Christian, so am I" I thought to myself, "I have a strong conviction that sleeping together is wrong and she thought it was okay" I wondered how she could think that. Anyway we broke up.
I kept reading my bible and repenting, there was so much to repent of and I had lived a very sinful life. I was a thief for some part of my life and all the people I stole from kept coming to mind. I owed so much money. I was instantly in debt about $80,000. As I could I paid them back. As of 7-18-2016 I still owe about $25,000 but it sure is a joy to be paying them back.
The first week of being saved a car just about ran me over, they hit me but I wasn't hurt at all. The guy in the car felt so bad. I just looked at him and said "God bless you and have a great day, I am okay" smiled at him and moved on. Now I was really wondering what was going on because I normally would have cussed him out left and right and instead of cussing I blessed him. That was so weird. But again it felt good. I learned to do good by what my conscience told me was good and that it felt good. I got hooked on this feeling good by doing good and did it more often.
About two weeks after being saved I thought of Bob. I immediately prayed for him, something like "Lord help him.." then I stopped praying and said out loud "What am I doing?" I'm praying for a man that I hated my whole life, but it feels good and right, so I did it again. I stopped again midway in the prayer and started pacing around. I was trying to make sense of what was going on and couldn't figure it out. But again it made me happy to pray for him so I did. Bob would often come to mind when I went to the bathroom and each time I would pray for Him. The more I did this the less weird it got. And the greater my love grew for him.
I started memorizing large portions of scripture and this was wonderful because it felt like the words were cleaning my mind and as Proverbs 2:10 "For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul." I wanted more and more of this pleasantness. So I memorized even more and the joy got more and more.
Then this life changing advice came:
A friend from church told me to find a book of the Bible and really understand it. Read through the Bible and pick one and read it over and over and study it and really get it. So I started in Genesis and read through. When I got to Proverbs I really liked it so I thought that would be the book. I started by memorizing all of Proverbs chapter 3. After that I thought maybe there is a better book than Proverbs. So I read on. Then I came to Song of Solomon. I read it with quite some confusion. It wasn't as good as the other books, I didn't know why. So I bought a commentary on it. George Burrowes commentary on the Song of Solomon.
In the commentary I found that George and other saw the book as illustrating God's love to the Church. And not only illustrating it but displaying the Love of Christ better than any other book. This caught my attention big time, because I was having a burning desire for a closer relationship with God and desperately learning about His Love so that I could Love God. You see I had hated Him for so long that God used that old hard heart to spur me on in loving Him. I so much did not want to hate God anymore that I was on fire to learn to Love Him as much and as fast as possible. So here was a book that would help me do that. So I landed on the Song of Solomon. I committed to learning as much of this book as possible.
I memorized the first chapter and would repeat it often throughout the day. I didn't know much of what I was repeating but it sure made me happier and on fire for God. I grew so fast repeating the first chapter over and over again all day, like a dozen times a day at least. It felt so good and I never found any other book that caused me to weep so much. I would often weep everyday just reading it. I was to immature to know what was going on. Even though it hurt to weep so much, I felt like my heart was being cleansed from the filth that was in it by repeating it over and over again so I did. As I read the commentary I understood more and more. What God was doing in me through the Song was greater and faster than any other portion of Scripture so I tended to stay there often. I was so excited about God that I thought it funny that other's in church weren't the same way. Some where happy but it seemed most of them didn't seem to care much about God. They would talk about work, football the weather. The only thing I wanted to talk about was Jesus and God and how can I grow closer to Him.
About this time there was a mission trip to Ireland.
I started to have convictions that I should try to find Bob and witness to him. I kept praying for him but how could he be saved if he hadn't heard the Gospel that has power unto salvation. So I asked family if they had any information. Like me before, my family hated him and thought he deserved hell. After some time I got his name but no location or phone number. Either they didn't know where he was or didn't want to tell me. I prayed some more and then started to get stronger convictions to do something about finding Bob.
So I went on the internet and typed in "his name and child molestation sex offender court" thinking that some court record would have some info leading to where I may find him" I even talked to a private eye and he couldn't help. So I googled some key words and spent hours each day looking through each page. I believed it was God's will for me to witness to Bob. I wanted him to be saved. Really bad. So much so that I thought God would save Bob if I were to witness to him. So I didn't stop searching for him. I kept my computer on each day and went page by page. It took two years to go through about 15,000 pages but I found someone who matched his name in a prison for molesting his grandchildren. I wrote the prison and he wrote back. All kinds of emotions went through my body when I saw his letter from the jail. I didn't open it right away but two hours later God gave me enough courage to face my fears again and I opened the letter. He admitted to being the one who molested me. We wrote back and forth I told him I was angry before but now I was saved and that I loved him and believed God wanted me to talk to him. He read my letters over and over again. I shared the gospel in each one.
I got mad at Bob 2x. Once he said that he love me. I got really angry with him. He didn't love me. That night it was hard to love Bob, I had to call a friend to pray for me to repent, after he prayed I felt greater love for Bob. Then I wrote him back saying "I'm sorry but you can't say that you loved me. You did not love me you lusted after me." He admitted he didn't love as he should have and admitted that it was lust and sinful. Finally some conviction. Yet I only thought he was saying that because I was being nice to him. All his family had left him and he said I was the only "friend" he had.
Wether or not it was true Bob said that he had cancer in his arm and that the help the prison gives was not enough and if he had money he could see a different doctor and get help. I sent him some money and since I was in jail before I knew what it was like to be in there without money, so I sent him money.
About 4-5 months in the economy went down, it was 2008. Work was hard. I still sent him money and I had to work harder. This was a really good lesson for me because I had to "work hard for the benefit of someone who did not deserve it." This was one of the greatest blessing ever because I realized with great certainty that Jesus was in me. This is what Jesus did. Jesus worked his whole life for me and I didn't deserve it!! Christ was in me! This was one of the best feelings ever and it put me in worship for months.
Then a mission trip to Croatia.
Each time I had to leave my business and amazing as it is I was completely okay each time. I am a self employed personal trainer and it is normally absurd to just leave and start over, but each time I had enough work within 2 weeks of coming back. This is a flat out miracle. I trusted God to provide and he did. How many people can start up a business in 2 weeks. Only with the help of God. God was teaching me early on in my walk that as long as I did what He wanted me to do then I had nothing to worry about.
About 3 years saved now.
I Taught the 4 year old's at church Sunday morning for 10 years.
Left my business 2x for mission trips and God miraculously provided when I came back.
I taught 5 x a week plus held a job.
Sunday morning to the kids.
Sunday night with the 5th graders
Friday afternoons at Good News Clubs. Sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship.
Friday Nights with the Kids teaching through Pilgrims Progress, I did this 2x
Teaching Monday afternoons at a nursing home. I taught through the Song of Songs once then John, then Romans then back to the Song again! I love the Song of Songs.
I grew up hating God for what happened to me, and now I love Him because He first loved me. My passion is for children to grow up loving God and not hating Him.
My other passion which has become ever greater is to help others see the Love of Christ to His Church in the Song of Songs!!
I would love to help you, just let me know and I will lead you and pray for you.
God demonstrates His love to us in sending His one and only Son to suffer in our place, taking our sins upon Himself so that whoever believes they get to heaven because of what He did for us will not perish but have everlasting life.