{"id":3165,"date":"2015-03-30T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2015-03-30T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:47:16","slug":"i-flunked-song-of-solomon-907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2015\/i-flunked-song-of-solomon-907\/","title":{"rendered":"I Flunked Song of Solomon 907"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may know I&#8217;m writing Old Testament lessons for high school freshmen. Recently I got to the sole lesson on the Song of Solomon.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions I had were quite elementary:<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook\">Bride and Groom. Applies to marriage and to Christ and His church; we are focusing on Christ and His church. Good for married people. Relate to Eph 5. Use appropriate passages; skip explicit ones. To relate the Song of Solomon to the relationship between Jesus and His bride.<\/div>\n<p>The lesson focus is that last sentence.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to those mandated parameters, I had these of my own:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li>Make it practical for ninth graders.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid eye-rolling stretching to make the passage point to Christ and the church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I finally settled on using these passages:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li>Song of Solomon 2:4 (85)<\/li>\n<li>Song of Solomon 4:1-7 (176)<\/li>\n<li>Song of Solomon 5:10-16 (143)<\/li>\n<li>Song of Solomon 7:10 (107)<\/li>\n<li>Song of Solomon 8:6,7 (217)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The numbers in parentheses tell you how many words I dedicated to each passage.<\/p>\n<p>I began and ended the lesson with these paragraphs respectively:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Song of Solomon is a difficult, much-debated, little-understood book. Perhaps it describes a real-life romance. Perhaps it&#8217;s more a poem or play to instruct and encourage husbands and wives. Perhaps it&#8217;s an intricate allegory illustrating God&#8217;s relationship with His people. Perhaps it&#8217;s some combination of those. This lesson, though, will help you consider several portions of the Song of Solomon from three different angles: pre-marriage guidelines, marital principles, and spiritual truths pertaining to Christ and the church.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing shall be able to separate us from divine love (Romans 8:35-39). As the church is secure in Christ, so the church must secure her love for Christ alone (Matthew 24:12; Revelation 2:4). We should let Him know in thought, word, and deed that we are His alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering the parameters I had, I was enamored with what I submitted. Well, that&#8217;s too strong. Maybe infatuated. No, not that either. Pleased, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So much for feelings. I received instructions to please rewrite the lesson. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Oh, you&#8217;re wondering about the 907 in the post title? Well, 101 is so predictable, pass\u00e9, and\/or blas\u00e9.)<\/p>\n<p>Today I started that process by reading through Song of Solomon. Alas, now I&#8217;m less optimistic than when I started. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any passages to suggest (that fall within the above parameters)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote it for ninth graders and overshot the mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[316,561,537,800],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-todays-search","tag-bible","tag-church","tag-marriage","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-P3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}