First question: What are your feelings about coming to the Song of Solomon? Second (related) question: What is a book so unapologetically all about sex doing in the Bible?
From the beginning of the Christian era, the Song of Solomon has been read as an allegory of Christ and the church and is commonly read this way still today.
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Read Reflect In the midst of a trial, we’ve all wondered where God was and why he was allowing us to go through whatever we were going through. It can be frustrating, and I’ll admit that sometimes I’ve questioned whether or not God still cares. However, this passage demonstrates that is God always with us […]
Read More feelings, assurance, doubt, restoration
Read Reflect Today’s psalm offers the flip side of the perfect world we read about last week in Psalm 128. The two form a pair. Like Psalm 124, the repetition at the beginning indicates that it was intended for communal use, with the worship leader beginning with verse 1 and the congregation picking up the […]
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Read Reflect If you find the flow of this psalm hard to follow, you’re in good company. The reason for the apparent jerkiness is that in the original Hebrew each verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It’s what is known as an “acrostic” psalm. And it’s only half a psalm, covering […]
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As Paul journeys to Jerusalem there seems to be a discrepancy about the leading of the Holy Spirit. Paul declares that he is being led by the Holy Spirit to go to Jerusalem. But the believers along the way strongly warn Paul by the Holy Spirit that he will face many dangers. They try to dissuade him from going.
Read More conflicting advice, feelings, God’s will, Holy Spirit, fear