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Song of Solomon 06: Back Together Again
Discover the profound cycles of love and faith as we reflect on Song of Solomon, Chapters 6 and 8. What can a centuries-old text teach us about modern relationships and spiritual devotion? Tune in to explore the compelling journey of reunion and separation experienced by the lovers in Chapter 6, a journey that mirrors the seasons of closeness and distance we navigate in our own relationships. Through the wisdom of those who have weathered the years together, we'll uncover strategies for nurturing lasting love and learn how these insights can also deepen our connection with God.
As we turn to Chapter 8, prepare to be inspired by the constancy and depth of divine love that guides us through life's varied seasons. We'll engage in heartfelt prayer, seeking to feel His presence as an unwavering support amidst the ebb and flow of our lives. This episode serves as both a reminder and a promise: the powerful love within us is but a reflection of the eternal love our Creator extends to us. Expressing gratitude and anticipation, we invite you to continue this journey with us through the Song of Solomon, with eager hearts looking forward to the wisdom Chapter 7 will reveal.
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Well, hello everybody, welcome back to the Bible Breakdown Podcast with your host, pastor Brandon, today, song of Solomon, chapter 6, and today's title is Back Together Again, back Together Again. The band is back together again. We're going to talk about that in a moment, because yesterday they couldn't find each other. Today they done found each other. We'll get into that in just a moment. But, as always, if you like what we're doing here, make sure you like, share, subscribe, youtube channel and the podcast, make sure you leave us a five-star review on the podcast, and always make sure you're going to the Bible Breakdown Discussion on Facebook because, man, the more we dig, the more we find. And so, if you have your Bibles, want to open up with us to. Song of Solomon, chapter six, don't forget, the overall idea of the Song of Solomon is it's Jewish, it's Hebrew love poetry and it is celebrating the love between a young man and a young woman. And the overall theme is the power of love. And, as we've been saying over and over again, the Song of Solomon is if a young man and a young woman love each other this much, how much more does God love all of us? Well, yesterday, poor lady didn't want to get up out to bed and because of that, her husband walked off and she couldn't find him. Well, now they're going to find each other again. Bless them all, right? So let's read this together and let's see what God's Word had to say, and also every chapter, especially moving forward. There's always a PG-13 warning on this, because they'd be talking about it All right. So here we go, if you're ready.
Speaker 1:Song of Solomon, chapter 6, verse 1, says this the young women of Jerusalem say where has your lover gone, o woman of rare beauty, and which way did he turn so we can help you find him? The young woman says my lover has gone down to his garden and his spice beds to browse in the gardens, to gather the lilies. I am my lover's and my lover is mine. And he browses among the lilies. Then the young man says you are beautiful, my darling, like a lovely city of Terza. Yes, as beautiful as Jerusalem, as majestic as an army with billowing banners. Turn your eyes away, for they overpower me. Your hair falls in waves like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are as white as sheep, as if they have been freshly washed. Your smile is flawless, each tooth matched with its twin. Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil.
Speaker 1:Even among 60 queens and 80 concubines and countless young women, I would still choose my dove, my perfect one, the favorite of her mother, dearly loved by the one who bore her, the young women who see her and praise her. Even queens and royal concubines sing her praises. Who is this arising like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic, as mighty, as an army with billowing banners? Well, the young woman says, I went down to the grove of walnut trees and out to the valley to see the new spring growth, to see whether the grapevines had budded and or the pomegranates were in bloom, before I realized that my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man. Young women of Jerusalem, return, return to us, o maid of Shulam, come back, come back that we may see you again. The young man says why do you stare at this young woman of Shulam as she moves so gracefully between two lines of dancers and so kind of end with a cliffhanger? There we're going to finish it up next week, but if you see, what's going on here is there's this journey, in this relationship that they're on where, at one point, you've got the young man is looking for her and she can't, she's not going to let him in. When she lets him in, that's yesterday. Now he's gone and now she's looking for him. And it's this journey that they're on together, just cycling, that they're going back and forth, and what that makes me think of is it makes me think of the relationship that we have with one another, also that we have with God.
Speaker 1:Let me start with the one another. As we go through relationships, everything we do moves in cycles. We go through cycles where, man, we're just so close, we just love each other. Yes, we got this. Then we go through a season where people get bored with one another, just get bored with life, and then you just feel stale again, and then you get excited again, and you get stale again, and you get excited again, and all this and you wonder if that's normal, one of the things.
Speaker 1:If you're married and we'll broaden it out in a moment if you're married, I would encourage you go talk to somebody who's been married 30 years or longer. My wife and I, we got married in 2001,. So do the math on, when you're listening to this, how long we've been married now and I love to talk to people who've been married at least 30 years or longer, because what you start to realize is that these marriages that have lasted a long time, they are a cycle of seasons. Just like we have four seasons in a year, most of us, there's seasons in a relationship. There's seasons when you're excited, there's seasons when you're just man, you just couldn't be better. Then there's seasons when it's not as cool as it was. Then there's seasons when it's cold and you're having to kind of redefine the relationship here a little bit. But then, if you never quit and you never give up, you're always able to come back around again.
Speaker 1:And what that means is to be prepared for every season that you're going through, just like in this chapter. You've got this season of now. You started with her or him coming after her, now she's coming after him and it's just a cycle. It's just a cycle. Well, relationships move in that. So what does that mean? That means, when you're going through a good cycle, do the best you can to prepare for the eventuality of a difficult season. Well, pastor, we're never going to get. Well, you might, and the best way to push it down the road is to work on being as healthy as you can in the healthy season and then when you go through a difficult season, you go through a winter season in your relationship. Don't give up, remember that spring will come again if you don't give up, and to never stop working on your relationship. That's one of the things I love about this chapter is they're constantly seeking after one another. They never stop seeking after one another, and we broaden that out to our relationship with God. Can I tell you something that not everybody's gonna tell you? So we're gonna lean in on this one your relationship with God will move through seasons.
Speaker 1:I love being around new Christians. They're so exciting. I've been a Christian since 1996, man and I grew up in church before that and so I've been around this thing for a long time. And I love being around new Christians because they are so exciting and it's almost like God answers their prayers more quickly than he answers everybody else's. So I mean, if you need something, you ask a brand new Christian to pray for it and I'm going to tell you something. It's on its way right. It is amazing and I love that excitement.
Speaker 1:But just like in a marriage relationship, eventually that honeymoon ends and you got to learn how to start living with one another. Well, eventually the honeymoon of Christianity ends. That doesn't mean your love for God goes away, and it definitely doesn't mean salvation goes away, but it means the newness that should never go away does. All of a sudden, you get up one day and the fact that you are saved is not as awesome as it was. It's still awesome, but it doesn't just fill you with as much joy, because now there's growing pains that are starting to happen and you're having to start developing your relationship with God. And so you start to go through these different seasons. And then you start to get to places where you're not as excited about the things that God has used to. So you work on it and you get excited again and God is developing you and you get all this, and then you're going to go through seasons and cycles.
Speaker 1:Here's the trick Never stop seeking God when you're in a good season, prepare for the winter seasons. When you're in the winter seasons, never stop growing and, just like in this chapter, when you see this cycle, realize that in relationships you're going to go through cycles. So I want to ask you this question what season are you in? If you're married. If you're married, what season are you in in your marriage right now? Whatever it is, prepare for the next season, but for everybody. Where are you in in your marriage right now? Whatever it is, prepare for the next season, but for everybody. Where are you at in your season in your relationship with God? Do you need to prepare? Are you in a great season? Do you need to prepare for those other ones, or are you in a cold season? If so, never stop seeking God. I you. Just around the corner is a better season.
Speaker 1:Let's pray together, god. Thank you so much. Lord, you do move us through seasons and cycles, and the great thing is is that you never leave us in any season and cycle In relationships. You never leave us In our relationship with you. You never leave us. I pray today will fill your closeness and it'll cause us to take another step forward. Today, in Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen. What God's Word says in Song of Solomon, chapter 8, many waters cannot quench your love, nor can rivers drown it. If we love each other this much, how much more does our Heavenly Father love us? I love you. I'll see you tomorrow for Song of Solomon, chapter 7.
