May 1 Morning Devotional | May Flowers | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, May 1 | “His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.” —Song of Solomon 5:13 (ESV)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Song of Solomon 5:13-14 (ESV)

“His cheeks are like beds of spices,
mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.
His lips are lilies,
dripping liquid myrrh.
His arms are rods of gold,
set with jewels.
His body is polished ivory,
bedecked with sapphires.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

The flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on your springtime attire and go forth to gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. You know where to go, for to you “the beds of spices” are well known, and you have so often smelled the perfume of “the sweet flowers,” that you will go at once to your well-beloved and find all loveliness, all joy in him.

That cheek once so rudely smitten with a rod, often covered with tears of sympathy and then defiled with spittle — that cheek as it smiles with mercy is as a fragrant aroma to my heart. You did not hide your face from shame and spitting, O Lord Jesus, and therefore I will find my dearest delight in praising you. Those cheeks were furrowed by the plow of grief, and crimsoned with red lines of blood from your thorn-crowned temples; such marks of love unbounded cannot but charm my soul far more than “pillars of perfume.” If I may not see the whole of his face I would behold his cheeks, for the least glimpse of him is exceedingly refreshing to my spiritual sense and yields a variety of delights.

In Jesus I find not only fragrance but a bed of spices; not one flower, but all manner of sweet flowers. He is to me my rose and my lily, my heart’s-ease and my cluster of camphire. When he is with me it is May all the year round, and my soul goes forth to wash her happy face in the morning-dew of his grace, and to solace herself with the singing of the birds of his promises. Precious Lord Jesus, let me in very deed know the blessedness which dwells in abiding, unbroken fellowship with you. I am a poor worthless one, whose cheek you have deigned to kiss! O let me kiss you in return with the kisses of my lips.

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