Song of Songs 5:9
What is your beloved more than another beloved,
O most beautiful among women?
What is your beloved more than another beloved,
that you thus adjure us?
Tag: True Love can Handle a Challenge
In this section of Song of Solomon the group of other women (we don’t know who they are) is pressing up on Solomon’s bride to tell them why she believes her groom (Solomon) is so special. They ask this because she has made such a big deal about him and now want a further, more in depth description. In verses 10-16 she will accommodate them with word pictures and adjectives as to why he is “more than another.” When love is challenged there ought to be a ready reply. We ought not have a hesitation when asked why our true love is our “true” love. She is ready to end their curiosity with such a vivid description. She knows her man and is proud to tell others of his virtues and strengths. She doesn’t talk about his flaws, although, undoubtedly, he has them. In public she is content to only mention the great things about him to her friends. She boasts of her man‘s strengths. This is how true love should be. This is how our love for Christ should be, as well. When asked by the crowds of life why we love Christ so, we ought to be able to rattle off virtue after virtue; deed after deed that He has done for us. He, of course, has no flaws. We are blessed with a Redeemer who is perfect in every way and when asked why He is special and more special than the other so called ‘gods’ of this world, we can rejoice in the character and might He possesses.
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