Day 72

 

A Flock of Goats

 

How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful!

Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

 

                                                Song of Songs 4:1

 

I have a confession to make. Though I have preached over a 1,000 different sermons in my life I have never preached one sermon from the Song of Songs (also known as The Song of Solomon). There is a reason for this. The reason is the same as why Bibles that are printed with illustrations never have a picture from the Song of Songs. If you have read it then you know; it is adult content.

The content makes some people uncomfortable and they try to explain it away. Some Bible experts try to tell us it is a allegory about how God loves the church. They must have been drinking Lord's Supper grape juice that had been left in the fridge too long when they came up with that one. It is the only book of the Bible that some people aren't comfortable taking literally.

Other than the amorous nature of the Song of Solomon there is another thing that strikes me about its content. Solomon must have majored in agriculture in college. He is always referring to his lover as pieces of fruit or some animal. She is compared to gazelles, doves apples and grapes. She has teeth like a flock of sheep, eyes like a dove and hair like a flock of goats.

So what are we to make of all of this? God wants us to understand that we are to love and be attracted to our spouse. In fact we are to be attracted to them either because their hair looks like a flock of goats or despite the fact that they have goat hair. Paul tells men in Ephesians 5 , "husbands love your wives." We are to love our own wife and not some other woman with sheep teeth and goat hair.

The other thing I get from this book of the Bible is: Thank God I live in a day and time where we have discovered just what conditioner can do for your hair.

 

Upon Further Review:

 

Read Ephesians 5:21- 6:4

• Who is supposed to submit? (Eph. 5:21)
• What is the wife's role in mutual submission? (Eph. 5:24)
• What is the husband's role in mutual submission? (Eph. 5:25)
• What is the child's role in mutual submission? (Eph. 6:1)
• What is the parent's role in mutual submission? (Eph. 6:4)