Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
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YOUR DESCRIPTION
The Song of Solomon is full of glorious descriptions of the Bridegroom to the bride and vice versa. Shall we look at one today? The Bridegroom speaks in Song of Solomon 7:6: “How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!”The words of this book can be read as the words of our Heavenly bridegroom to the church, His bride. They can also be taken literally as the husband and wife speaking to one another. As we read this description, do you think it is a description your husband would say of you?
I notice four adjectives in this one little sentence.
HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE. The Hebrew word is “yaphah” which is the word used in Israel today for beautiful. It means to “make oneself beautiful, to decorate.” We know this means beautiful on the inside as well as the outside. Not all of us are what we could call beautiful, but we can make ourselves beautiful with a loving smile and attitude. This far outweighs any outward beauty. How often do you smile adoringly at your husband? Many times a day?
HOW SWEET YOU ARE. The word “pleasant” in the Hebrew is “na-em” and means “to be agreeable, to be a delight, to be pleasant, to be sweet.” Are you agreeable to live with? Or are you reactionary? Are you sweet to your husband or cold and boring?
HOW LOVED YOU ARE. Your husband cannot help loving you because of the love you show to him. When you pour out love it comes back to you.
HOW DELIGHTFUL YOU ARE. The Hebrew word “delights” is “ta-anuwg” and means “delight, pleasant, delicate.” This Scripture is in the context of love-making. Are you intoxicating him with delights? But it is far more than that. It relates to every department of our lives as wives in the home.
Do you notice the word is plural? It has an “s” on the end! It is not one delight but continual delights. Do you continually delight your husband—in the bedroom, in the kitchen with delightful and wholesome meals, in every situation in your life? Do you delight to serve him?
As you seek to delight him, he will delight in you.
Love from Nancy Campbell
