“Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?” (Song of Solomon 1:7)
In this Scripture in Solomon’s love poem, the bride admits and declares her love for the bridegroom. He is her true love and urges him to tell her where he will be caring for his flocks so she can be with him instead of seeking solace in others. They are not her true love. They don’t provide and satisfy the love that she has for the bridegroom.
As in other lessons of Scriptures from this book that Solomon wrote, an analogy is made of the church and Christ. Solomon wrote about the love between a bride and a bridegroom, but God inspired it to illustrate the love between the bride of Christ, the church and Jesus the bridegroom. The book has been canonized as inspired of God and included in the Scriptures.
Marriage is sacred to the Lord. Marriage, which was instituted by the Lord, is holy, is the union of love “until death do us part,” for as long as the two live here on earth. It’s a commitment in good times and in hard times. Solomon saw this through the wisdom that God gave him. “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12) Marriage represents the faithfulness of the Lord’s promises to us. He will never give us a divorce. We are His eternally. And He has said, “Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.” (Malachi 2:14-16) The words in the phrase “For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that He hateth putting away.” Putting away was the term that was used for divorce. And God says He hates it. There is no divorce for the Lord and the church. It is eternal. The church may fail, but the Lord will never fail us. He will stick with us through all our failings and defects. “Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” (1Corinthians 1:8-9)
In our Scripture the church had been seeking the Lord. She found solace in false gods, but they didn’t satisfy the longing in her heart for her true love. In each of us, there is a place in our hearts that only God can satisfy with His indwelling. And until He is with us and in us, our hearts yearn for Him. We may not recognize it. We may run here and there trying to find what will satisfy it. But it’s not satisfied until He resides in our spirit. Then we will know peace. In our Scripture the bride urges the groom to tell her where he is. She’s wise enough to know she won’t be satisfied with anyone else. And we also will not be satisfied until the Lord indwells. “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14) It's forever, eternally.
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