April 13 Morning Devotional | A Bundle of Myrrh | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, April 13 | “A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.” —Song of Solomon 1:13Show more

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Song of Solomon 1:13

“A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

Myrrh may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfume, its pleasantness, its healing, preserving, disinfecting qualities, and its connection with sacrifice. But why is he compared to “a bundle of myrrh”?

First, for plenty. He is not a drop of it, he is a casket full. He is not a sprig or flower of it, but a whole bundle. There is enough in Christ for all my necessities; let me not be slow to avail myself of him.

Our well-beloved is compared to a “bundle” again, for variety: for there is in Christ not only the one thing needful, but “in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,” (Colossians 2:9) everything needful is in him. Take Jesus in his different characters, and you will see a marvellous variety — Prophet, Priest, King, Husband, Friend, Shepherd. Consider him in his life, death, resurrection, ascension, second advent; view him in his virtue, gentleness, courage, self-denial, love, faithfulness, truth, righteousness — everywhere he is a bundle of preciousness.

He is a “bundle of myrrh” for preservation — not loose myrrh to be dropped on the floor or trodden on, but myrrh tied up, myrrh to be stored in a casket. We must value him as our best treasure; we must prize his words and his ordinances; and we must keep our thoughts of him and knowledge of him as under lock and key, lest the devil should steal anything from us.

Moreover, Jesus is a “bundle of myrrh” for speciality. The emblem suggests the idea of distinguishing, discriminating grace. From before the foundation of the world, he was set apart for his people; and he gives forth his perfume only to those who understand how to enter into communion with him, to have close dealings with him. Oh, blessed people whom the Lord has admitted into his secrets, and for whom he sets himself apart! Choice and happy who are thus made to say, “A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”

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