Lessons from Solomon - The Horse Standard

painting by Frederick Arthur Bridgman

"We will make for you ornaments of gold with beads of silver." (Song of Solomon 1:11 - nasb)

Yesterday as I preached this text after a week of study and meditation, I was reminded afresh that Solomon was taking notes for his bride from the ornamentation of a horse.

Now it wasn't just any horse, of course, for a horse is just a horse unless its an Arabian horse (ok, stop the music from Mr. Ed)! The fiance' of Solomon had so diminished herself, that in Solomon's retort, it was as if he stumbled upon an odd solution. In communicating to his fiance' the idea that she was as the finest and most beautiful of all creations, he realized that even the horses of a king are reminded of their worth by bridles decorated with gold and silver... so shouldn't the wife of a king be so reminded as well?!

I wonder if we forget this principle.

Can our spouses, our loved ones, simply open their eyes and find our love constantly proclaimed all around them? Is the fact of love, passion, and commitment so obvious that to herald it from trumpets would be to simply proclaim the overt and obvious?

Sometimes we treat our horses better than our wives, our cars better than the mother of our children, our toys better than the love of our life, and maybe that's why love is often forgotten even as it sleeps side by side each night.

It's just a thought.

Peace of Christ to you!

John