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THE HUSBAND WHO DRAWS HIS WIFE
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Here is a little exposition of Song of Solomon 1:4 while contemplating the true love of the faithful Husband. I hope you are edified:

Song 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. When God draws us we do not casually walk toward Him. We run after Him. Why do we run? He first must DRAW us: Psa 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.Psa 65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. Notice this last passage. It speaks of those chamber into which the bride would be drawn: to approach Him, to dwell in His courts, His house, His Temple.

When you see the word run, what comes to your mind?

Psa 119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. When do we run? "When THOU shalt enlarge my heart." Because none seek God, they certainly would never run in the way of His commandments. The sovereign God must first enlarge our hearts in order to run in the way of His commandments. In what way do we run? "The way of Thy commandments." Again, how do we run in those commandments? Ezekiel 36:26-27 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. {27} And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. But is this really fulfilled in us? Do we now run in the way of His commandments? Romans 8:3-4 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: {4} That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. We who are His always walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is walking in the faith. This is the inevitable result of the drawing love of God for His people: Jer 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again, why do we run? Song 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. When God draws us, not only do we run, but we will be glad and rejoice in Him. This is not a possibility but an inevitable, unchangeable result of being drawn by God's irresistible power to cause us, His bride, formerly His enemies to submit to Him: Psa 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. Truly, this is an irresistible power, a love that cannot be reversed or resisted. The promise is certain with surety and not possibility: 1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us. So often this verse is improperly applied to refer to the imagined "natural" response to the love of God. But the verse is much more forceful. We love Him because He first loved us. This is not a possibility, this is certainty. The promise is sure. Those whom God loves will love God because God first loved them. There can be no other response. They must love him. They cannot resist the cords of loving-kindness that draw them to love Him. This thought is often dismissed by those whose hearts rebel against the sovereignty of God. They say, "what kind of love is that which forces someone to love in return." I answer: the greatest love is that love which draws those who would most certainly hate. A hateful, impotent "love" would "allow" any to choose. And so the nature of man would choose death and destruction. Thus, that "love" would never deliver a soul, for no soul would seek after the light but, rather, hates the light and runs from the light lest its deeds should be exposed: John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. God draws us into His chambers. What verse do you remember when you think of draw?
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. He draws us to Himself, which draws us into His chambers: John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. His chambers represent His house. This is the result of a faithful Husband drawing a wife. He draws her into His dwelling so that He may dwell in her. This is His desire: Psa 132:13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.Psa 132:14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Song 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. The result of this irresistible drawing power of the Husband must bring joy and gladness. The faithful Husband alone causes gladness and joy in the hearts of His people, His bride:
Jer 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. The faithful Husband does not request or plead that His bride rejoice. No, the faithful Husband makes His bride rejoice: Ezra 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Psa 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psa 4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. Psa 30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Psa 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Song 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. Finally, the last two results in this passage from the faithful Husband drawing His bride are His causing her to remember His love more than wine and to make her love Him. God makes His bride remember His love above all else: Psa 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Prov 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Prov 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that maybe desired are not to be compared to it. What is wisdom or rather, who is wisdom? 1 Cor 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;1 Cor 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Christ is the wisdom of God, the power of God and the love of God: 1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. What is the depth of this love that should cause love in return? Ephesians 3:16-19 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;{17} That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, {18} May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; {19} And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Last, those who are upright love God. But we must ask why? Forgiveness is accomplished through the blood of Christ shed to draw all His elect throughout the world to Himself. Forgiveness is the result of the drawing love of God for His bride. Though His bride was once a vile and adulterous woman. Yet through the drawing love of her faithful Husband she bows to kiss His feet. As our passage declares: "The upright love Thee." Through His death for her, she is made upright and she loves Him: Luke 7:47-48 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. {48} And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

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