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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
Gee, you're sounding like Witness Lee here. He wasn't a big Solomon fan.
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I'm not saying that I am not a fan of Solomon. Like much of the Bible, it is recorded by frail humans. It records God in the midst of the chaos of natural life.
My real comment was that suggesting that the Song of Solomon was simply about one of his wives might be a little simplistic. Especially when it was the preponderance of wives that turned his head from following the true God, unlike his father who, though continually failing, turned his heart back to God.
To be honest, I think that the "ooo" and "aaaah" of the emotional and personal portions of the Song of Solomon are too easily replacements for sober following of God/Christ. We too often think of the value of having a heart for God in terms of feelings rather than in the practical evidence of living. Not saying there is nothing worthwhile in the SofS, but rather that we focus on it at an impractical, and therefore sort of useless level. Turning away from everything to chase through the woods after a lover as the end-all metaphor of the Christian experience results in a spirituality that has no evidence for someone like James to see as proof you were actually chasing after God/Christ. We have turned from the pursuit of God through the pursuit of living as he directs into an ethereal exercise in faux spirituality that does nothing except be spiritual.
Now there is a time and a place for pursuing a lover. It has a season, or seasons. It is not the "instead of works" or however people want to think about it. That is, to me, the fatal flaw in most inner life ministries. (And Nee was clearly inner life before and while he was grand poohbah of the Little Flock.) They rightly point us to more than just works, then convince us that there are no works, only inner life. And it will magically do everything for you.