A Hand Reaches Through the Door Openingby CBPepper
5:4Song of Solomon 5:4
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Song of Solomon 5:4 belongs to a book written as a warm, figurative Oriental love poem in the style and Eastern coloring of the East. It is understood by many as a parable and poetic picture in which Solomon's experiences are typical of Christ and His church. It sets forth Christ's love and the church's responding love, though her faithfulness and constancy are often lacking, variable as the wind and changeable as the weather from Abraham to the present day.
The verse shows the Beloved, who is her Lord, initiating contact and knocking at the door for admittance to stir her to open. It also reflects God drawing near to help and ransom the one facing death, prompting a response to His call. The scene portrays the sleepy, Laodicean church hearing Christ at the door and being stirred, yet delaying from sleepiness and indolence while He waits. When she finally opens, roused at last by God's judgments, He has withdrawn Himself and is gone, so she opens to Him but He is no longer there and she searches for Him, making the delay a solemn warning. This reverses the earlier pattern in which people knocked and the door was opened to them, in contrast with Christ's later invitation for people to hear His voice and open the door to Him.
Song of Solomon 5:4 belongs to a book written as a warm, figurative Oriental love poem in the style and Eastern coloring of the East. It is understood by many as a parable and poetic picture in which Solomon's experiences are typical of Christ and His church. It sets forth Christ's love and the church's responding love, though her faithfulness and constancy are often lacking, variable as the wind and changeable as the weather from Abraham to the present day.
The verse shows the Beloved, who is her Lord, initiating contact and knocking at the door for admittance to stir her to open. It also reflects God drawing near to help and ransom the one facing death, prompting a response to His call. The scene portrays the sleepy, Laodicean church hearing Christ at the door and being stirred, yet delaying from sleepiness and indolence while He waits. When she finally opens, roused at last by God's judgments, He has withdrawn Himself and is gone, so she opens to Him but He is no longer there and she searches for Him, making the delay a solemn warning. This reverses the earlier pattern in which people knocked and the door was opened to them, in contrast with Christ's later invitation for people to hear His voice and open the door to Him.