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and a garden enclosed.” And for the first time in the Song the
bride begins to understand. The groom was saying to the bride,
“I love you just the way you are. You don’t need to make
yourself attractive and you don’t have to try so hard to win my
approval. Up to this time it was her efforts but now she said,
“I’m his garden.”

Song 4:9, “You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my
bride; You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance
of your eyes, with a single strand of your necklace.” The groom
said, “You make my heart skip a beat. You ravish my heart.
My heart beats fast when I see you.” Do you believe that the
Lord’s heart beats fast when He looks at you? His heart skips
a beat. He loves you and He delights in you. That’s not flattery.
Flattery is an insincere complement. This is how He really
feels.

When she understood that she was his garden and that he loved
her, she prayed a prayer that I’m calling the indispensable
disposition. Song 4:16, “Awake, O north wind, and come, wind
of the south; make my garden breathe out fragrance, let it’s
spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into this
garden and eat its choice fruits!”

Listen to the bride’s prayer. She said, “Wake up north wind and
blow on my garden.” What is the north wind? That’s a chilly
wind and that’s frosty wind. That pictures hard times and
affliction. She said, “I’m his garden; north wind come blow on
the garden.” She’s not only asking the north wind but she’s
begging the north wind. Then she thinks about it and she says,
“Wake up south wind.” The south wind is prosperity and
blessing. It’s health and it’s goodness. Here is the bride’s
disposition. She said, “I’m his garden. I don’t care if it’s the
north wind or the south wind. It’s whatever pleases him.” That
becomes the disposition. It doesn’t matter if it’s the north wind
or the south wind. If he’s happy, blow on my garden.