Song of Solomon 5:11

This lovely description is another step in the awakening of love. When the bride unfolds the perfections of the Bridegroom to others, her heart is engaged with Himself and His glories. It is stirred again to its depths. Telling others about the glories and perfections of Christ will most surely rekindle your own love for Christ.

The Spirit of God guides her, and she delights to dwell on His many excellencies and glories, pictured in human features. A word before you begin, my soul: do not look for hidden meanings in these separate features beyond the limits of holy Scripture. "The place on which you are standing is holy ground." The Lord did not forbid Moses to come near the burning bush. But He told him it must be with bare feet. So let your eye be anointed and your heart worshipping as you meditate on Zion's glorious King.

"His head is the finest gold." The finest gold may point to supreme majesty, as in Daniel 2:38, "you are the head of gold." Scripture also often uses gold to represent divine righteousness in connection with the Person of Christ, as in Isaiah 11:5 and Revelation 1:13.

Here is One who will not only have all the kingdoms of this world in a coming day, but of whom Scripture says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever."

These verses use gold three times in the detailed description of the Beloved. His head is the finest gold. His hands are gold rings, and His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His head brings His blessed Person before us, and there it is the finest gold. Where it is His walk, it is fine gold. Where it is His work, it is gold.

His locks are flowing and black, showing the vigour of manhood. No white hair, no trace of age or decay will ever come on Him. Where everything else grows old, He never grows old. His years will never end.

Here is all the vigour and strength of an undecaying affection; no trace of grey hairs or mark of decline on Him.

The blackness of His locks stands in sharp contrast to what Daniel 7 reveals about Him. There He is the Ancient of Days, whose clothing was white as snow and the hair of His head like pure wool. He is seen there as the One who has been from of old, from eternity. Now He is Man; no grey hairs are on Him. Nothing He has passed through has weakened the freshness and vigour that belonged to Him down here... So when John sees Jesus in his vision, "one like a son of man... the hairs of His head were white, like white wool, like snow." The Son of Man is still the Ancient of Days.

Some believe that "the finest gold" refers to the Godhead of Jesus, and the "wavy locks" to His manhood. No truth lies nearer the heart of faith than the perfect manhood of the blessed Saviour, joined with His eternal Godhead. "Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen."