During a visit to Pine Street Chapel this weekend, Brother Greg Mayhew shared this message of encouragement from the second chapter of Song of Solomon. After discussing four different ways of reading this beautiful book of the Bible—literal, dispensational, redemptive, and spiritual—he focuses on a few expressions of love between the lover and the beloved as a spiritual picture of the relationship between the resurrected Lord and the individual believer.
Imagining ourselves in the position of the two blind beggars healed by the Lord outside of Jericho (Matthew 20:29–34), Luke Harriman encourages us all to ask the Lord to graciously open our eyes. He then goes on to reflect on four instances of God opening someone's eyes: Balaam (Numbers 22), Elisha's servant and the blinded Syrians (2 Kings 6), and the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24). Although the Lord has opened the eyes of every believer, we can all benefit from even more illumination.