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July 2 - Song of Solomon 3 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's the 2nd of July.
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  It's a Wednesday and there's not going to be a whole lot of me
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  today, is there? Because, well, when you look at
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  today's Bible reading, Avon, it's all you.
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  Definitely doesn't seem very fair at all.
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  So I'm going to leave all of this up to you, sweetheart.
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  This beginning part. All right, that's me.
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  So as you know, if you have started at the beginning of the
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  week, we are reading through this book of love poetry, the
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  Song of Songs. Now this was well, there's many
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  theories. It could have been written by
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  Solomon or it could could have been written about Solomon or it
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  could have been written for Solomon.
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  There's different views and different opinions, but what's
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  clear is that it is a book of poetry, poetry of the love
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  between man and woman. And it's lovely.
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  And today it's all about the young woman and the young women
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  of Jerusalem speaking about their lovely 1.
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  So all of that said, how about let's settle back And here the
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  lovely Avon. Read to us today's Bible reading
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  Song of Solomon, chapter 3. One night as I lay in bed, I
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  yearned for my lover. I yearned for him, but he did
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  not come. So I said to myself, I will get
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  up and roam the city, searching in all its streets and squares.
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  I will search for the one I love.
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  So I searched everywhere but did not find him.
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  The Watchmen stopped me as they made their rounds, and I asked,
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  Have you seen the one I love then?
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  Scarcely had I left them when I found my love.
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  I caught and held him tightly. Then I brought him to my
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  mother's house, into my mother's bed, where I had been conceived.
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  Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and
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  wild deer, not to awaken love until the time is right.
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  Who is this sweeping in from the wilderness like a cloud of
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  smoke? Who is it fragrant with myrrh
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  and frankincense and every kind of spice?
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  Look, it is Solomon's carriage, surrounded by 60 heroic men, the
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  best of Israel's soldiers. They are all skilled swordsmen,
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  experienced warriors. Each weighs a sword on his
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  thigh, ready to defend the king against an attack in the night.
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  King Solomon's carriage is built of wood imported from Lebanon.
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  Its posts are silver, its canopy gold.
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  Its cushions are purple. It was decorated with love by
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  the Young women of Jerusalem Come out to see King Solomon.
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  Young women of Jerusalem. He wears the crown his mother
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  gave him on his wedding day, his most joyous day.
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  Our Lord, thank you for your word thank you for the full
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  human experience that it covers and we thank you for this love
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  poetry and Lord, many of us don't tend to read this part of
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  your word. But Lord your word is all here
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  for a reason here to inspire us. So Lord, we just pray that your
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  Holy Spirit would use these words, that the intention of the
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  author, that as Your Spirit guided this poetry to be
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  captured and shared, that that would inspire us and that we
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  would learn more of you and your character and your love.
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  And we do thank you for your love.
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  We seldom feel deserving of it, but You love us anyway.
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  So in your love, we pray this in that precious saving name of
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  Jesus.