Come Away

DEVOTION

SONG OF SONGS

COME AWAY

Song 8:8-14

8 We have a young sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister for the day she is spoken for? 9 If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment. 11 Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver. 12 But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.

13 You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

14 Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.

NIV

Here is the conclusion of what some people think of as a play, with some the characters making their final appearance, in fact, according to some a new group, the brothers of the Shulamite. But again why bother to see this in the humanistic view when God is inspiring these thoughts in the heart of Solomon. So then who is this young sister? Who is the one who is a wall? Is this young sister the new church, or simple new believers? Once the new believer is spoken for, or the church, not the building, but the people, are spoken for, they become a wall, a tower of strength in Christ. Either we bring to contentment to Jesus, or he brings contentment to us. In his eyes we are like one bringing contentment, so then we are the ones who are content in his eyes. This has to be the church. The vineyards represent the truth of the gospel. It has been rented out, in a manner, it has been given out to the tenants of the earth. Each tenant, each person was to bring the fruit of their life back to the leaser, to God. But it appears that is not what had happened, yet for us, the very vineyard of God, the church, who bear the fruit of the Spirit, we give all our vineyard back to God. We give all to God and to Jesus from the fruit of the Spirit, which is we use for his glory and honor. Solomon represents the Lord and we proclaim he dwells in the garden with friends, Jesus dwells in the church with his friends, and we ask to hear his voice. What use is the church if it does not hear the voice of the Lord? What good is it for us to be in attendance with the Lord, if we are the only ones talking? Did not God talk with Adam in the garden? Surely Jesus wants to speak to us as we are in attendance in the garden. Let us hear your voice, O Lord, without your words, your instruction, your salvation, we will surely die. Jesus does answer our plea and he does speak to us, but we must listen, we must come away with him, leaving everything behind. We must be like the gazelle or the young stag, running up the mountain to God. The gazelle and young stag feed on the spices laden upon the mountain. We too feed on those spices, the very words of God. They are a sweet aroma to our senses, a sweet fragrance in our mouth, His voice is a spice to enjoy, to devour, to gorge ourselves upon this mountain of God. There is nothing else upon his mountain then the spices, his word, his grace, his love, the Spirit of truth and understanding. His mountain is laden with his gifts, his fruit, his armor, all that we need to survive. Both the gazelle and the young stag do not run on the streets of the cities below, but stay climbing upward on the spice laden mountain of the Lord. Jesus calls us, come away my lover, my beloved church who loves me. Come away with me, come up to the mountain and live, come away.

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