Song of Solomon 1:6. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me:
Perhaps you are afraid, beloved, that the Master should look at you, for you feel yourself so unworthy.
Song of Solomon 1:6. My mother’s children were angry with me;
You have been persecuted until your spirit is broken.
Song of Solomon 1:6. They made me the keeper of the vineyards;
Perhaps you have been put to some ignoble work; you have toiled under the whip of the law; but you have a worse sorrow even than this, for you have to add: -
Song of Solomon 1:6. But mine own vineyard have I not kept.
You are conscious that you have restrained prayer, that you have neglected searching the Word, that you have not lived as near to God as you ought to have done; and all this seems to make you feel as if you could not come into close communion with Christ. Come, my brother, my sister, shake off your unbelief, may the Master shake it off from you! Then once again you can change the note, as the spouse does here: -
Song of Solomon 1:6. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me:
Perhaps you are afraid, beloved, that the Master should look at you, for you feel yourself so unworthy.
Song of Solomon 1:6. My mother’s children were angry with me;
You have been persecuted until your spirit is broken.
Song of Solomon 1:6. They made me the keeper of the vineyards;
Perhaps you have been put to some ignoble work; you have toiled under the whip of the law; but you have a worse sorrow even than this, for you have to add: -
Song of Solomon 1:6. But mine own vineyard have I not kept.
You are conscious that you have restrained prayer, that you have neglected searching the Word, that you have not lived as near to God as you ought to have done; and all this seems to make you feel as if you could not come into close communion with Christ. Come, my brother, my sister, shake off your unbelief, may the Master shake it off from you! Then once again you can change the note, as the spouse does here: -