A Deeper Understanding of Song of Solomon: God's Plan for His Bride

This little book is just a continuation of Understanding Song of Solomon which was written in 2017. From the time we accept Jesus as our personal Savior and begin a life of loving Him and serving Him, we are much like sheep wandering around, getting lost, being rescued by our loving Shepherd, to wanting to remain with Him and the other sheep.
From where we are now, we may get a little off course and have to find our way back on course, but our heart’s desire is to be in preparation to be His Bride.
Deeper Understanding will take us forward through really discovering His absolute, divine love for us, causing us to show more devotion to Him, being in His presence more, reading the Word, and getting a deeper understanding of Who we will be spending eternity with.
This time allows us to see what has to change in our lives on earth before we can join Him in Paradise. It's a time of character development and wanting nothing for ourselves other than to please God.
“In that day,” declares the Lord,” you will call me husband’…you will no longer call me master’…
I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.
I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord.” ( Hosea 2:16, 19-20) KJB
In Hebrew ISH means husband, Lord, owner or master. He is our intended husband and we are His bride. If you remember the story in Hosea, he is instructed to marry an adulterous woman and is told go out and to get her to return to him often. We are that same unfaithful bride wandering off to seek our own pleasure. In Deeper Understanding, we learn to want to, and then to be, - His adoring Wife.
Hosea’s life is a portrayal of God’s own experience with our faithlessness. We provoke Him, prove less than faithful, and always Jesus is out looking for us, pursuing us until we repent and want to really be the wife He intends for us to be. He is ever faithful to us, kind, caring, forgiving, and true.
What lures us is not usually sinful activities, but subtle things that take our minds off in other directions. I’m talking about stuff like bigger paychecks, nicer homes, exotic travels and vacations, a more substantial retirement, kids’ involvement with sports, and hobbies like horse shows or FFA animals they choose to raise and show. Please don’t think I’m saying any of this is bad. I am saying they can become obsessions and too much time is given to that instead of the relationship God wants for us.
It is where we learn to want to realize that only He can satisfy us with the good things He wants His wife to have. In truth, God is the only One who can promise His Pure love for He is LOVE. Hopefully, this book will help you and me to be ever mindful to realize He will never leave us or forsake us and that nothing in creation can separate us from Him. Read Romans 8:39 in any version of His Word.
Unlike Hosea and his story, Deeper Understanding is really about Abraham and how his servant located Rebekah to be Isaac’s future wife. The servant sent to find a wife for his son represents the Holy Spirit being sent out to find us. Holy Spirit draws us to Jesus as the servant draws Rebekah to want to marry Isaac.
The servant brought beautiful gifts to Rebekah and her family, and the Holy Spirit comes bearing gifts to us as well. Read Ephesians 3:16-20 and Hebrew 2 (NIV)
When we accept the idea we should prepare to be His bride, the journey begins. As with Rebekah, her journey to Isaac also begins until she is joined to Isaac.
We find ourselves on a journey back to the Father and His Son, being led by the Holy Spirit. I have repeatedly referred to Abraham’s servant as the ‘servant’, but do you remember what his name was? It was Eliezer which means “God is my helper”. Now, isn’t that amazing? The Holy Spirit is God’s helper in keeping us on track and on the way to return to our Husband. And greater still is the fact that the Holy Spirit resides within us.