The country girl is back with the king tending his sheep. He is so glad to have her back; he is so glad that he says she is more important than his most prized possession--Jerusalem. She is beautiful and has a great effect on him, slaying him with her eyes. Gone from her neck is the thousand bucklers and shields mentioned earlier and now the king sees sixty queens and eighty concubines and virgins without number. Wow she is growing into quite the woman and this allures him much more than the ornaments of gold he previously placed upon her neck. How pleasing it is to him that she has blossomed into a beautiful lover--a repentant girl returning much more assuredly to the one she loves.
I learned the song below as a child in Vacation Bible School. How much more it means to my repentant heart now than it did then. To be welcomed again after mistakes, after maturation, and after restoration is a wonderfully valuable thing.
In God's green pastures feeding,
by His cool waters lie.
Soft in the evening walk my Lord and I;
all the sheep of His pasture
fare so wondrously fine,
His sheep and I.
Waters cool, pastures green
In the evening walk my Lord and I.
Orien Johnson 1956
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