Spurgeon: October PM
* 10/28/PM
"His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and
black as a raven."
--Song of Solomon 5:11
Comparisons all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the
spouse uses the best within her reach. By the head of Jesus we
may understand His deity, "for the head of Christ is God" and
then the ingot of purest gold is the best conceivable metaphor,
but all too poor to describe one so precious, so pure, so dear,
so glorious. Jesus is not a grain of gold, but a vast globe of
it, a priceless mass of treasure such as earth and heaven cannot
excel. The creatures are mere iron and clay, they all shall
perish like wood, hay, and stubble, but the everliving Head of
the creation of God shall shine on for ever and ever. In Him is
no mixture, nor smallest taint of alloy. He is for ever
infinitely holy and altogether divine. The bushy locks depict
His manly vigour. There is nothing effeminate in our Beloved. He
is the manliest of men. Bold as a lion, laborious as an ox,
swift as an eagle. Every conceivable and inconceivable beauty is
to be found in Him, though once He was despised and rejected of
men.
"His head the finest gold;
With secret sweet perfume,
His curled locks hang all as black
As any raven's plume."
The glory of His head is not shorn away, He is eternally crowned
with peerless majesty. The black hair indicates youthful
freshness, for Jesus has the dew of His youth upon Him. Others
grow languid with age, but He is for ever a Priest as was
Melchisedek; others come and go, but He abides as God upon His
throne, world without end. We will behold Him to-night and adore
Him. Angels are gazing upon Him--His redeemed must not turn away
their eyes from Him. Where else is there such a Beloved? O for
an hour's fellowship with Him! Away, ye intruding cares! Jesus
draws me, and I run after Him.