Final Words

Song of Solomon 8:13-14

Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

Psalm 91:1-2 speaks of those who "dwell in the secret place." The same live "under the shadow of the Almighty." There is something to be said for some garden dwelling people. See, there are a lot of gardens. But there is only one master of them. These are the places of death, betrayal, and intimacy in our lives. We serve a God who also knows the dwelling of the gardens intimately. My friends, it all started in the garden of Eden. It will end in the garden of Heaven. In the meantime, we walk with him through the garden down here having been invited in through Christ. See, here is the angel with the flaming sword guarding the tree of life as in Genesis 3:24 He does this lest man eat thereof and live forever without invitation. If you recall, the sword was even the Word of God in Ephesians 6:17. May I suggest, these are all the same garden appearing through the different seasons. So also, there are those that dwell with Solomon and his Song. They are their companions. It should be seen that these could be the same as the laborers of the vineyard or different. It all depends on how close the companions chose to be. Now it seems the Song has a problem, having gone temporarily deaf. She can see just fine, but her hearing is affected. See, "faith comes by" the hearing of Romans 10:17; then this stems from the Word of God. There is nothing physically wrong with the Song's ears. She just could not hear all that God was trying to say. Some of us are the same way. We tend to spend all our time speaking to green-eyed tree monsters and less time speaking with the Lord. We ought to be like the Song and say, 'speak, Lord; I listen.'

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

So, the Song and her Solomon will be to each other as deer or young harts upon the mountains of God. They have taught the people, led them well, and now are free to run where they will. My, I can almost see the young Song now old climbing the hills for the very last time. As she climbs, she calls to her Solomon to come bounding after her as they did at first. How many of you know that when you are in the house of God, he makes even this new once more. Be they as old as the mountains or as spices themselves, God can make them into roes and young harts once more. It is God's work, for we are in his house. Some of you might wonder how long will be. It will be even "until the daybreak and the shadows flee away" as before. See how he provides the rest of Hebrews 4:9 for these two here. They have toiled long and are now tired. But even now God will give them strength as in Isaiah 40:31. You may wonder how I know these things. Trust me, it is even as the testimony of the Song and her Solomon themselves. You might blink and miss them, so fast do they run. But off in the distance, I still hear the Song's call to her Beloved of God: "make haste, make haste" and "come away."