“Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.” Song of Solomon 3:11
The Song of Solomon is a remarkable book of the Bible. The first thing to say about it is that it is a love story. It is the story of a man and a woman, their love, and their marriage. It charts the course of their love with its joys and with its frustrations. The Song of Solomon has much to say about love and about intimacy. But there is a larger reason for this book being in the Bible.
This story is about more than the love of a man for a woman. It is the love of a king for his bride. It is the Song of Solomon, and Solomon was the king, coming to win his bride. The whole story points us forward to Christ the King coming into the world to seek and find his bride, the church.
From heaven he came and sought her
to be his holy bride
With his own blood he bought her
and for her life he died.
We are looking at a human love story about a king who loves his bride, and we are going to look through this lens in order to see something beautiful about Christ and His love for us.
What is one thing that you’d like to know about God’s love for us?
