05/14/2021 – Day 362 – Song of Solomon – Chapters 7-8 // 8:7: “Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it….”
My footnote to 8:7 says: “The cross was God’s expressed love for you. Don’t look to material blessings as a token of His love. One day you may find yourself in a dungeon, with few friends and no material wealth. (This was the apostle Paul’s experience — he suffered the loss of all things for the sake of the Gospel,, Phil 3:8) So, fortify yourself, Do what Paul did look only to the cross, and God’s love will never be quenched. See Gal 2:20 for details.”
Who was Abishag in the Bible? As you will see in this link, there is some speculation that she is the Shulamite woman in the end of Song of Solomon here:
https://www.gotquestions.org/Abishag-in-the-Bible.html
So, these two chapters are steamy with passion. It’s enough to make me blush. (lol) But we are talking about a greater love here than the physical passion of young love. But through the multi dimensional interpretation of this book, I believe we can connect it all up by saying it is evidence that God designed marriage and the family around the Trinity. If we put Him at the center of our marriages, we might be able to get a much clearer picture of that, as Paul noted: “run for the prize”, and I will add; “Don’t stop running until your last breath.”
But, let’s ramp it back up to the highest level from a very short verse and follow the connectivity in God’s Truth, verse 7:10: “I am my beloved’s, And his desire is toward me.” My foonote to that verse reads: “The Christian is a chaste virgin, waiting to be presented to Jesus Christ. See 2 Corinthians 11:2.” Ok, let’s follow that with 11:2 and the Apostle Paul speaking through the hand of God: “For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chase virgin to Christ.” And let’s add verse 3: “But I fear, lest somehow , as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
Now, let’s pull that back to Solomon and the Shulammite woman: It was the “real deal” – fully committed love bathed in youthful full of vigor “simplicity”. But poor Solomon polluted it by adding about 1000 women, between wives and concubines.
Did Yeshua, the Christ not say: “You cannot love Me and love the world as well?”
Soli Deo Gloria!