The Bride Rises Up - Song of Songs 5:5

In the book of Song of Songs, Solomon shared how the groom invited the bride to come away with him, and the bride responded, “I sleep, but my heart wakes: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him”, and in chapter five and verse five of Song of Songs, Solomon shared how the bride said, “I rose up to open to my beloved” where we read,

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh,

and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

The verse begins, “I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, ...” Solomon began with the words, “I rose up” or “I, the bride, arose and stood” “to open to my beloved” which means “to let loose and free toward my, the bride's, well-loved groom”; “and my hands” or “and my, the bride's, physical hands” “dropped with myrrh”which means “dripped, distilled and were oozing with myrrh which was an Arabian gum from the bark of a tree which was used in sacred oil and perfume”. Solomon shared how the bride said she finally arose toward her well-loved groom, and her physical hands were oozing with the “Arabian gum from the bark of a tree” which was used in sacred oil and perfume. 

The verse continues, “... and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.” Solomon added the words, “and my fingers” or “and my, the bride's, grasping and seizing fingers on her hands” “with sweet smelling myrrh” which means “by the use of overflowing and lovely myrrh”, “upon the handles” or “on the bent helve or shaft” “of the lock” which means “belonging to the bolt or latch”. Solomon shared how the bride used her physical “fingers” to grasp the shaft of the latch on the door which was coated with lovely “myrrh”.

When we think through the words in this verse, we learn through Solomon how the bride finally attempted to respond to the invitation of the groom. She grasped the lock which was coated with perfume, “myrrh”, and her “fingers” were dripping with the scent of it when she attempted to open the latch to the door. The groom left the aroma of his presence, and this was the response for the groom desired. However, as we shall see, she was too late. God's Son Jesus was presented “myrrh” in His childhood and at His death on the cross, (See Matthew 2:11; Mark 15:23) and He wants to have a personal relationship with every person. When we yield to Jesus as our “Savior and Lord”, He will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and give us an opportunity to “open the door to our hearts” to His “myrrh” laced hands every time He desires to spend time with us. 

Next time Solomon shares how the bride says, “I opened to my beloved” so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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