SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 1 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.” [Jeremiah 1:9-10] Jeremiah is given a…
a mighty flame
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. [Song of Solomon…
love or lust
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O love, with your delights! Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like the clusters…
call me blessed
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 6 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her. [Song…
the love we’re looking for
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 5 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer. The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls! Daughters of Jerusalem, I…
God’s design for intimacy
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain. Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and…
inspiring love
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced. [Song 3:11] How many young girls have dreamed about being swept away by a prince charming –…
really don’t care?
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 2 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love. [Song 2:4] 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. Listen! My lover! Look! Here he comes,…
one small step
a marriage celebration
SCRIPTURE: Song of Solomon 1 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I thought that this book deserves a special reflection. Here is an outline and summary of the Song of Solomon, taken from gotquestions.org. The poetry takes the form of a dialogue between a husband (the king) and his wife (the Shulamite). We can divide the book into three sections:…