Most will remember when you first fell in love; primarily the ladies will, how that you would "doodle" on a notebook "I love ……." Most girls, not many guys, (I didn't) often keep a diary. In the diary were notes of your dreams and hopes of the person you had fallen madly in love with. (I guess that what most ladies write about in their diaries…don't know.) But I do know that in Song of Solomon chapter three we are given such an example of the Shulamites diary.

The Shulamite bride in her diary/journal, writes about a dream she had concerning her and King Solomon. (Song of Solomon 3:1-5)

1.By night on my bed {this is her reference to the dream she had.} I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. {in her dream, she was looking for her fiancé and couldn't find him. They had been together but for some reason he wasn't with her and this brought fear and anxiety to her.} 2.I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. {In her dream, she was looking for King Solomon but couldn't find him. She dreamed that she went into the streets of the city; the broad ways of the city and searched for him but still she couldn’t' find him.} 3.The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? {The men who served as the police or guards of the town during the night, found her walking through the streets at night looking for the one she loved and she tells us that she enquired of them "where is the man I love…I can't find him; I'm looking for him.} 4.It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: {in her dream, she finally found the one she was in love with and looking for. In her dream she continues to tell us what she done when she found the man that she loved.} I held him, and would not let him go, {though this was a dream she had, it describes the great affection and love that she had for King Solomon. It is possible that when the young Shulamite bride went to bed that night, she went to sleep with her fiancé on her mind. Dreaming this event of losing the one she loved she went out in the night streets looking and searching for him because she longed to be held by him and in turn hold him. She did not want to lose sight of his presence in her life. Yet, we read what she done when she found King Solomon in her dream….} I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. {She is dreaming about her wedding day. In her dream, when she found her fiancé, she brought him into her mother's chamber or bedroom. The custom of that was that the wife lived in a separate apartment or room and the only person who was permitted to enter into that room was the wife's husband. She was dreaming of bringing her fiancé, who was soon to be her husband into the room like what her own mother had and there they would consummate their love. Let me hasten to note here, there is nothing unclean or sinful about his; it's just the expression of a sincere and pure love. How do I know this? Read what she says in verse five….} 5.I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, {she is telling her dream to the women of Jerusalem and warns them against doing something that would be wrong; consider her warning to these other young ladies:} I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. {Three times in the book of the Song of Solomon do you find this particular phrase, "stir not up…" It is found in chapter 2 and verse 7; chapter 3 and verse 5, chapter 8 and verse 4. Each time this phrase, "stir not up, till he please," carries the reference to the "stirring of temptations" to sexual love before the proper time. She is telling the other young ladies, named here as the daughters of Jerusalem, to tempt her to engage in sexual love that is to be expressed only between the marriage of a man and a woman. She says to them, there is a proper time for this to happen and until then, I am willing to be patient. She was so sincere about this commitment she "charged" the women. The word "charged" is equivalent to "an oath." She felt that her responsibility to wait for that special time when she would give herself physically and intimately to her husband was sacred and needed not be a temptation to break her commitment to wait. Her renewed commitment is seen in the words "I charge you….by the roes, and by the hinds of the field." The roes are animals of the antelope family and the hines is a reference to the female deer. Both of these animals, the roes and the hines, were noted for their swiftness of foot. These animals have keen vision, acute sense of smell and are quick to unusual noises. At the least disturbance they will run away. What she is talking about, in using their example, is that to get close to them, being they are the type of animal they are, you have to be patient, wait and take your time. She says that there will be a proper time when me and the man I love, will be able to express our love for each other in the proper manner……but until then….as one waits patiently to approach the skittish animal of the roe or hind, so will I wait patiently for that special moment will be able to give myself to my heart's love.}

Beautiful words from her diary…don't you think? A Committed young lady to the one she loved?

Touch back in the next blogs I'm going to write about her desire for his presence in her life and how she modeled it as an example for each of us that are disciples of Christ.

So…until my next blog confabulation….God bless!