“Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.” (Song of Solomon 1:4)
Solomon wrote this book wrote about the love between a bride and a bridegroom. It’s included in the canonized books of the Bible because of its allegory significance. Canonized books are recognized as inspired by God.
The bride is talking to the bridegroom in this verse. She requests, “Draw me...” This is a biblical truth. We cannot come to the Lord without the Lord drawing us. Our salvation is a complete work of God from the very beginning. Jesus said, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:44) We can take no credit for any part of our salvation which is holy, and God initiated and completed by God. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13) The only thing the Lord requires is our complete surrender to Him.
“...we will run after thee...” declares the bride which is also symbolic. The church is known as the bride of Christ. This bride declares her allegiance to the bridegroom to obey him and do all his pleasure. And the believers, the church declares the same to our Lord. David wrote in his psalm, “I will run the way of Thy commandments, when Thou shalt enlarge my heart.” (Psalm 119:32) Our response to the Lord’s love is to run to Him and to be quick to obey His commandments because He is our love. Paul called our life in Jesus a race that is set before us which we must run and complete without allowing anything, any desire, any goal or any vision apart from God to distract or delay us from our obedience to our Lord. “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,” (Hebrews 12:1).
“...the king has brought me into his chambers...” The King of kings will draw us from the earth and take us with Him. Jesus said, “In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:2-3) We belong to Him. And we belong with Him. And we will be with Him, sharing in His glory. “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:6-7)
We rejoice now in our salvation as we live our life by faith. “...Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:” (1Peter 1:8). Paul wrote to the Philippians, “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” (Philippians 3:3) We worship in spirit, in the here and now and when we are with Him declaring our love and worship like Solomon’s bride and say, “... we will be glad and rejoice in thee...”
His love is better than wine. It’s better than anything on this earth that gives pleasure. It’s to be remembered, celebrated and in solemnity commemorated. It’s an agape love. A love that He died for. And as His we remember as often as we can. “And He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is My body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you.” (Luke 22:19-20) He gave His life so that we might have life.
And we are the upright who love Him. The upright are those born again of God. “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” (John 3:5-7) They are them which have surrendered their lives to Him. “Then said Jesus unto His disciples, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it.” (Matthew 16:24-25) They are them who have been given the righteousness of Jesus. “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” (2Corinthians 5:21)
The love between a bride and bridegroom is a beautiful example of the love between the church and Christ. There can only be one love for the bride and for the groom. And there can only be one love for us. Christ already expressed His love in giving His life so that we could live with Him. In our lives there can be no other love, not for ourselves, not for our dreams, not for any other thing or any other person, but only for Christ.
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