愛主更深（歌五）中英bilingual

我身睡臥，我心卻醒。耶路撒冷的眾女子啊，我囑咐你們：若遇見我的良人，要告訴他，我因思愛成病。(歌 5：2a、8) 

雅歌前一章(第四章)是良人對新婦的邀約，這些的讚美像一顆又一顆的球丟向新婦，而到了第四章的最後一節，則換成新婦對良人的回應。 

本章第五章中，兩人之間的互動都是以新婦的角度來描寫，一開始，良人請她開門，但新婦因為一些緣故，而遲遲沒有開門。第六節說「我給我的良人開了門；我的良人卻已轉身走了。他說話的時候，我神不守舍；我尋找他，竟尋不見；我呼叫他，他卻不回答。」在新婦終於準備好後卻又尋不著良人的身影，她尋遍城中也不見良人的蹤影，還被別人打傷。在第八節說「耶路撒冷的眾女子啊，我囑咐你們：若遇見我的良人，要告訴他，我因思愛成病。」此時新婦一心只想見到她的良人，從第十節一直到結尾，都是她對良人的讚美，也藉此昭告天下，她眼中那令她思愛成病的良人是多麼好。 

他的形狀如利巴嫩，且佳美如香柏樹；他全然可愛。耶路撒冷的眾女子啊，這是我的良人；這是我的朋友。(歌 5：15-16) 

雅歌透過浪漫美好、如詩的言詞來往，描述一對男女之間的互動以及心思，是互相往來的告白故事，也象徵神與教會甚至是神與我們個人的關係。第五章中，良人轉身離去，從小弟的感覺來說，更像是神對我們的考驗，雅歌中的新婦因著良人的考驗，而更加愛慕良人，在過程中被人打傷了身體，但她沒有放棄尋找她的良人，並且在過程中與良人的連結日益增強。 

當我們遇到試煉時，我們是否有倚靠神度過呢？還是因為被人打傷了身體而放棄我們與神的關係。願我們都能藉著試煉更親近神，在試煉過後我們便能像約伯一樣，「從前風聞， 現在得以親眼看見」。 

約伯回答耶和華說：我知道，你萬事都能做；你的旨意不能攔阻。我從前風聞有你，現在親眼看見你。(伯 42：1-2、5) 

By高霈晴

真耶穌教會石牌教會、天母教會線上講道

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Loving the Lord More Deeply

(​Song of Solomon 5)

​"I was asleep but my heart was awake. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, as to what you will tell him: for I am lovesick." (Song of Solomon 5:2, 8)

​The previous chapter, chapter four, was an invitation from the beloved to his bride. Those praises were like balls being tossed one after another toward the bride. By the last verse of chapter four, it became the bride’s turn to respond to her beloved.

​In this chapter, chapter five, the interaction between the two is described entirely from the bride's perspective. At the beginning, the beloved asks her to open the door, but for various reasons, the bride hesitates and does not open it immediately. Verse six says, "I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned away and had gone! My heart went out to him as he spoke. I searched for him but I did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me." After the bride was finally ready, she could no longer find any trace of her beloved. She searched throughout the city but could not find him, and she was even beaten and bruised by others. Verse eight says, "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, as to what you will tell him: for I am lovesick." At this moment, the bride thinks only of seeing her beloved. From verse ten until the end, it is all her praise for him, using this as a testimony to the world about how wonderful her beloved—who makes her "lovesick"—truly is.

​"His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars. He is wholly desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem." (Song of Solomon 5:15-16)

​The Song of Solomon uses romantic, beautiful, and poetic words to describe the interaction and thoughts between a man and a woman. It is a story of mutual confession that also symbolizes the relationship between God and the Church, or even God and us as individuals. In chapter five, the beloved turns and leaves; to me, this feels more like God testing us. Because of the beloved’s test, the bride in the Song of Solomon loves him even more. Even though her body was hurt by others during the process, she did not give up looking for her beloved, and her connection with him grew stronger throughout the journey.

​When we encounter trials, do we rely on God to get through them? Or do we give up on our relationship with God because our "bodies have been hurt"? May we all draw closer to God through trials. After the trial, we can be like Job and say, "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You."

​Then Job answered the Lord and said, "I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You." (Job 42:1-2, 5)

​By Bro. Gao Pei-qing