Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
May 27, 2025, 7:04 AM
Passage Read: Song of Solomon 3-6
Meditation Verses: 5:6-8
Thought
This is such a strange part of this love poem! Her liver comes to her but the door is locked. By the time she gets up to let him in, he is gone. She seems him in the night and is found by the watchmen. It had happened before with no consequence, but this time they beat her and bruise her! And how does she respond? "Tell my lover I am faint with love." The beating is lost in her love for her husband! Nothing about it. Why the beating in the first place?
May 20, 2024, 1:33 AM
Passage Read: Song of Solomon 3-6
Meditation Verses: 5:2-6
Thought
The Lord doesn't always come knocking when it's convenient for me. Even though I may love the Lord and desire to be ready for His call at any time, there will be times when I feel like it's really inconvenient. He won't wait forever while I hesitate. If I wait too long, even though I finally choose to answer Him, I may be too late.
May 1, 2023, 6:50 AM
Passage Read: Song of Solomon 3-6
Meditation Verse: 4:9
Thought
It's interesting that their love is so much based on the physical, their beauty and the delightfulness of their appearances. It is all passion and emotion, nothing about character or internal qualities. They are faint with love. Even the friends just want to look at the girl, to gaze on her as long as they can. And both lovers delight in the physical beauty of the other.