Song of Solomon 1:1 (ESV) – The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
- God designed love to begin with attraction.
SEVEN TRAITS OF ATTRACTIONS
Song of Solomon 1:2–4 (ESV) – [She] Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. [Others] We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
- Trait #2: Good Reputation
Song of Solomon 1:4 (ESV) – [She] Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. [Others] We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
- Trait #3: Your Friends Approve
- Trait #4 AND 5: Honest and Trustworthy
Song of Solomon 1:5–6 (ESV) – [She] I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!
- Trait #6: Moral Standards
Song of Solomon 1:7 (ESV) – Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?
Song of Solomon 1:8–10 (ESV) – [He] If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents. I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
THE WARNING TO WAIT
THE SHADOW: MARRIAGE
THE SUBSTANCE: JESUS AND THE CHURCH
Song of Solomon 1:6 (ESV) – My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!