Today: [Song of Solomon 2] The Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley. In Song of Solomon chapter 2 we see an ongoing dialog between the Bridegroom and the bride. The entire book of Song of Solomon is controversial and thought by many not to truly belong in the canon of scripture. However when we choose to look at it beyond the surface we see that it is a love poem between the bride and the Bridegroom who are none other than Christ and His church. There is something in you and I that registers when we hear in Song of Solomon the cry of the Bridegroom for intimacy and consolation of love at a level of intimacy perhaps we have never experienced. In this chapter the Bridegroom cries out for us to notice that He is looking at us “through the lattice” and bidding us to “come away”!
