Spurgeon's Song of Song Survey
Song of Songs – The Lily Among Thorns
A Lily Among the Thorns
Song of Solomon 2:2
The Lily Among Thorns, February 29, 1880
Pastor’s Opening
WE shall not enter into any profitless discussion this morning. We take it for granted that the Song of Solomon is a sacred marriage song between Christ and his church, and that it is the Lord Jesus who is here speaking of his church, and indeed of each individual member, saying, “As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.” I will not even enter into any disquisition as to what particular flower is here intended by the word translated “lily,” for it would be very difficult to select a plant from the Holy Land about which travelers and botanists would agree….
Scripture Verse(s)
Song of Solomon 2:2
“As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.”
Keys to the Verse
The Lily:
Bride/Church/Believer
The Thorns:
The World/Sin/Affliction
Daughters
Those outside of Christ’s Body
listen and read
Main Theme’s
I. First, I think my text very beautifully sets forth THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH, AND OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL TO CHRIST.
II. But now, secondly, our text is full of instruction as to THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE CHURCH, AND EACH INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER TO THE WORLD, “The lily among thorns.”
Pastor’s Poem
“A little bird I am.
Shut from the fields of air;
And in my cage I sit and sing
To him who placed me there;
Well pleased a prisoner to be,
Because, my God, it pleaseth thee.
“Nought have I else to do,
I sing the whole day long;
And he whom most I love to please
Doth listen to my song;
He caught and bound my wandering wing,
But still he bends to hear me sing.”
