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July 7 - Song of Solomon 5 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Yvonne, Sean's wife.
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  Here it is, Monday the 7th of July and if you're surprised to
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  hear my voice, you might not realise that Sean and I have
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  been reading Song of Solomon together and we have another
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  week coming up and I'm trying my best to enter it with
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  confidence. Thank you for your encouragement
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  if you've been someone who's said kind words to me this week,
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  but you are all going to hear plenty from me in today's
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  reading, so I'm passing you over to Sean.
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  Hello friends. Yeah, that's right.
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  We are going to continue this week reading through the Song of
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  Solomon and this week we're reading through the back half.
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  We've covered the 1st 4 chapters and now we're going to cover the
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  last four chapters as we settle into a completely different
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  rhythm of Bible reading. We are not going to be hearing
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  prophecies about the future. We are not going to be hearing
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  God's declaration to His people. We are going to be reading some
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  poetry, some poetry about the love between a man and a woman,
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  which doesn't feel very much like the rest of your Bible.
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  And we'll talk as the week goes on about different lenses that
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  we can use to approach this. But Avon has introduced herself.
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  I have done the same. So only one thing left to do.
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  Honey, you're ready. Alright.
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  Let's do it. Let's read together Song of
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  Solomon chapter 5. I have entered my garden, my
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  treasure, my bride. I gather myrrh with my spices
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  and eat honeycomb with my honey. I drink wine with my milk.
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  Oh, lover and beloved, eat and drink, Yes, drink deeply of your
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  love. I slept, but my heart was awake
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  when I heard my lover knocking and calling.
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  Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect
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  one. My head is drenched with dew, my
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  hair with the dampness of the night.
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  But I responded, I have taken off my robe.
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  Should I get dressed again? I have washed my feet, should I
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  get them soiled? My lover tried to unlatch the
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  door and my heart thrilled within me.
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  I jumped up to open the door for my love and my hands dripped
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  with perfume, my fingers dripped with lovely Mir as I pulled back
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  the bolt. I opened to my lover, but he was
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  gone. My heart sank.
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  I searched for him but could not find him anywhere.
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  I called to him, but there was no reply.
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  The night Watchmen found me as they made their rounds.
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  They beat and bruised me and stripped off my veil.
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  Those Watchmen on the walls make this promise.
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  O women of Jerusalem, if you find my lover, tell him I am
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  weak with love. Why is your lover better than
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  all others? A woman of rare beauty?
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  What makes your lover so special that we must promise this?
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  My lover is dark and dazzling, better than 10,000 others.
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  His head is fine as gold. His WAVY hair is black as a
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  Raven. His eyes sparkle like doves
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  beside springs of water. They are set like jewels washed
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  in milk. His cheeks are like gardens of
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  spices giving off fragrance. His lips are like lilies
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  perfumed with Mir. His arms are like rounded bars
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  of gold set with Beryl. His body is like bright ivory,
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  glowing with lapis lazuli. His legs are like marble pillars
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  set in sockets of finest gold. His posture is stately, like the
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  noble Cedars of Lebanon. His mouth is sweetness itself.
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  He is desirable in every way. Such a woman of Jerusalem is my
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  lover, my friend. Oh Lord, thank you that you are
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  not some robotic 2000 God plus no, you are a God who is
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  passionate and a God who loves with your whole heart.
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  Thank you for your word and the full breadth of it and the way
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  that it speaks with such passion of the love between these two
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  people. Thank you that well, you have
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  made us capable of such passion and to receive and to give with
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  big hearts and great emotion. Lord, sometimes this is a good
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  thing, sometimes this is a painful thing.
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  But Lord, this is part of the experience of life that you have
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  given us. So we thank you for the lives
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  that we we have, that we live that we enjoy.
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  We thank you for our big heartedness, but most
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  importantly for your big heartedness, for your love for
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  us, your passionate love for us, sending us your only Son in
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  sacrifice so that we can be with you.
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  We love you and we pray all of this in Jesus name, Amen.