The Song of Songs 8

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 There are many lessons I have learned from this love song.

God let me see what attracts a man through God's eyes which is the truth.

Men love a woman's body.  He loves her from her head to her toes. I must become physically fit because it is healthy and attractive.  It will be a purposefully modification in my life, but it is well worth it.  If I want a physically fit man, what is my excuse for not giving him  the same thing?

 It is spoken through the lyrics from the book of Song of Songs.  I am an older woman  and I missed a lot of the truth of this book.  I told God, I do not want to be like Moses when he could only view the promise land but never take part in it.  Meaning, I do not want to know what I could have had.

 Many people I know never talk or taught from this book from a human's point of view.  We see God disconnected from us when it concerns intimacy.  God made the body and he made the body for sexual desire between husband and wife.  I pray for marriages;  I pray that each couple we unashamably read this book and activate the lyrics and make marriage so attractive that the world would want to do it God's way.

We are never to old to see the goodness of God.  If He allowed Abraham and Sarah to have a son in their old age, He is still able to revive older women with men who find them to be suitable to become their wives.  Although the outside is beautiful, the inside must be submitted to God.  Marriage is hard work for all ages; and God has been around long enough to supervise the marriage and make it a union that reflects His original plan.

Song of Songs 8:1-14 (KJV) 1 O that thou [wert] as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! [when] I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. 

I would like to kiss you in public like I would my brother.  Many years ago, kissing a relative in public was not frowned upon like kissing a mate.

2 I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's house, [who] would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. 

I would want my mother to meet you and serve you the finest to wine.

3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 

I am dreaming again.  Ahhhhhhhhh.......

4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please. 

Ladies don't fall in love until both you and the man are on the same page.

5 Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth [that] bare thee. 

Now the lovers are older.

6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath a] most vehement flame. 

Greater than everything is love.

7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if [a] man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 

Love last.

8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? 

The brothers of a little girl asked the married couple a question.  They were asking how their little sister could be a bride as Solomon's wife?  Our marriages should be so attractive until God shows his approval by allowing others to see into your homes and the lives of both husband and wife so that will want to imitate your life of love in marriage.  If our lives do not reflect the mirror of God in what we do, how will the world know that God's Word Work?

9 If she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she [be] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. 

If she is godly we will let the world know.  If she is foolish we will lock her inside.

10 I [am] a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. 

I was consistent and I was chosen.

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver.

Solomon had land and allowed others to farm on it:  he made money from what he rented out to others.

 12 My vineyard, which [is] mine, [is] before me: thou, O Solomon, [must have] a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. 

Will the love for your spouse make you want to give to your husband even if he did not need it?  This is a real deep love.

I do not need your garden Solomon, I have my own, but I will still pay you and I will give to those who take care of the fruit instead of them paying.

I love you so much, I will give to you and I will even give to others.  But to you, I will give the most.

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear [it].

Those who know you listen to you:  make me hear you, it is you I want to hear from.

 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

I still want you, even though years have passed.  Love me and desire me  like you did when you first met me.