Song of Solomon 7
McGeeCHAPTERS 7 AND 8
Song of Solomon 7:10
PORTRAIT OF THE BRIDEIn the first nine verses of chapter 7 the bridegroom tells of his delight in his bride, using one beautiful figure after another. Harry A. Ironside makes this comment: “It is a wonderful thing to know that the Lord has far more delight in His people than we ourselves have ever had in Him. Some day we shall enjoy Him to the fullest; some day He will be everything to us; but as long as we are here, we never appreciate Him as much as He appreciates us. But as she listens to his expression of love, her heart is assured; she has the sense of restoration and fellowship.” SATISFACTION OF THE BRIDEShe says all she needs to say about her beloved in one verse: Twice before we have heard the bride say, “My beloved is mine, and I am his,” but A. Moody Stuart draws our attention to the fact that this is an expression of far greater fullness. Although it implies the outgoing of desire from the heart of Christ, it expressly declares what is much more precious: that the believer knows the strength of Christ’s desire toward him. Stuart puts it this way: " ‘I know’, saith the Lord, ’the thoughts that I think towards you, thoughts of good and not of evil’; the Lord who thinks them knows them, but he toward whom they are thought is often ignorant, or doubtful, or unbelieving regarding them; and most blessed are the souls that can respond, ‘We have known and believed the love that God hath to us.’" We are objects of His desirewhat wondrous grace!