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SESSION 3 : Song of Songs Chapter 1:3-8 (NKJV)

completely at rest, content, and settled, in whatever storm they may

encounter.

Following on from this, she then says: “For why should I be as a veiled

one straying beside the flocks of Your companions?”

The Shulamite rejects being veiled from the freedom Christ won on the

cross because of legalism and religion. She now sees how futile it is

and how it has caused her to stray from the truth—that as a friend of
Jesus, she is in covenant with the Living God. She therefore wants to

reconnect with true lovers of Jesus—His companions.

Verse 8 is interesting because it tells us what to do to get back on track

with Jesus: choose to seek, trust, and obey Him, and fellowship with
like-minded, like-spirited people.

Notice how Jesus does not chide her, but instead displays more of His

lovely nature. Because he is kind and patient, instead of berating her
for going off track, he gently guides her on the next step: to run without

further delay and follow in the footsteps of his faithful followers.

He also instructs her to amuse herself by feeding the kids at the tents of
the shepherds. The kids are people who are open but not yet born

again—all those yet to be converted by God’s grace into true sheep.
They are the unsaved, and our mission is to allow God to work through

us and transform these goat kids into sheep.

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