Song Of Solomon 4:12 -15 -You are a garden
locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a
sealed fountain. Your
plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with
henna and nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and
aloes and all the finest spices. You are a garden
fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
Solomon pours out his heart to this one he loves. He praises everything about her. He describes what he loves about her from
the top of his head to the bottom of her feet.
He likens her to a locked garden….with a well of flowing water.
Perhaps the locked terminology refers to her virginity…. her
pureness until the marriage bed. A rare
thing in today’s world for sure….but not an impossible thing to reinstate in today’s
youth….or older adults that find themselves still single…or single again. A plain…simple message for all of us that are
sometimes tempted to get caught up in the physical pleasures of intimacy before
we are joined in marriage.
Father…thank you for the reminder that my purity is
important. Help me to continue to value the pureness that Solomon valued. Amen.
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