Song of Solomon 5 - Praying God's Word

Please read Song of Solomon 5.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/sng/5/1/s_676001

Meditate on verses 2-3.

I was asleep but my heart was awake.

 A voice! My beloved was knocking:

“Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one!

For my head is drenched with dew,

 my locks with the damp of the night.”

“I have taken off my dress;

 how can I put it on again?

I have washed my feet,

how can I dirty them again?”

Excuses, excuses, excuses. Everyone is guilty of making them— “I’m too tired.” “I’m too busy.” “I don’t feel well.” “I don’t want to…”. Here, in God’s Holy Word, is a wife making excuses for not letting her husband into the house and engaging in marital intimacy—she doesn’t want to get her feet dirty! Before you judge the woman, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal excuses you are making for not obeying His will for your life.

When the bride came to her senses and got out of bed to open the door for her man, he was gone. Ugh—delayed obedience is disobedience—with consequences that follow! What could have been a lovely evening spent with her husband turns into a wretched night of being beaten by street thugs as she searches for him. She ends up wistfully telling the daughters of Jerusalem all about her husband instead of intimately whispering those words to him (vs. 8-16). Oh, how different the night could have been, if only….

Live your life without regrets. Stop making excuses. Love wholeheartedly. Follow the LORD completely. Let Him make your marriage all He wants it to be.

Pray Song of Solomon 5:1b over the marriages you guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, let __________ and __________ hear You say,

‘Eat, friends; drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.’

For the sake of their (our) marriage

and for the glory of Your name, Jesus~”

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 3 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell