Leaning on Her Beloved

I want to remind you as I attempt to lead you into a greater understanding of the word pictures of this blessed book, that it is a book designed to teach us spiritual things on two different levels. 1st of all, God gave it to us to speak to us on the level of our individual experience; our personal relationship with Christ. And the second level is the spiritual mystical relationship that the whole Church has, with our Lord Jesus Christ. He thinks upon her, and He loves her, and is using her to witness to the whole world, what it is like to be married spiritually to Him. He is making her fit for heaven and eternal glory. She is bearing His gospel and His word to the nations, in doing so, she is described for us here in verse 5 as coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved.
So, at this time I want to open up for you the 2 main spiritual concepts in these verses which will help you to understand better where Christ is leading you personally in your spiritual relationship with Him. And also, where He leading His whole Church in these days in which we live; that is, toward the climax of redemptive history. So, 1st of all, I want to speak to you about – The support that Christ's Church knows at all times during times of difficulty and tribulation. (verse 3) And 2nd – I want to speak to you about the leaning of the Church upon her Beloved, which she does coming up from the wilderness (verse 4 and 5a) May the Lord open our eyes to behold wondrous things from His word at this time, so that we might lean more on our Beloved.