Song of Solomon 1:13
Holy Fidelity—Richard Vines
If you are married to Jesus Christ, you like Him and His love better than all the world. Therefore, it is said, “His love is better than wine,” that is, than all the excellency of the creature; that there is not any other grape that yields such sweetness and comfort as His love; no grape of pleasure, or credit, or profit, in all the vineyard of the world that is like it, to your spouse-like taste. Jesus Christ is better than all, even as wine exceeds all other liquors whatsoever.
What then is it that fills up your heart, which takes up the chief place and room there? What is it that sits highest and possesses the first room of your liking, the top of your love? Is it the world or is it Jesus Christ?
If you are near unto Christ, as the wife to the husband, then you take Him for better or for worse, and you keep Him for better or for worse… that is, not only for His crown, but also for His cross; not only for health and wealth, and good report, but for sickness, and poverty, and evil report; not only for what He has, but for what He wants, to share with Him alike in all conditions.
Readings taken from Day by Day with the English Puritans
Holy Fidelity—Richard Vines
If you are married to Jesus Christ, you like Him and His love better than all the world. Therefore, it is said, “His love is better than wine,” that is, than all the excellency of the creature; that there is not any other grape that yields such sweetness and comfort as His love; no grape of pleasure, or credit, or profit, in all the vineyard of the world that is like it, to your spouse-like taste. Jesus Christ is better than all, even as wine exceeds all other liquors whatsoever.
What then is it that fills up your heart, which takes up the chief place and room there? What is it that sits highest and possesses the first room of your liking, the top of your love? Is it the world or is it Jesus Christ?
If you are near unto Christ, as the wife to the husband, then you take Him for better or for worse, and you keep Him for better or for worse… that is, not only for His crown, but also for His cross; not only for health and wealth, and good report, but for sickness, and poverty, and evil report; not only for what He has, but for what He wants, to share with Him alike in all conditions.
Readings taken from Day by Day with the English Puritans
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