Title The Locked Garden/Song 4:12
Content Locked Garden/Song 4:12
“My sister and my bride are a locked garden, a covered well, a sealed spring” (Song 4:12).
It should be a passive mind, not an active one. In the text, 'locked garden', 'covered well', 'bonghan spring' This refers to the heart of the saints. A person's deeds and misfortunes come from the heart. When God created man, he did not create the heart to be the master and active person, but to enjoy a noble and glorious position when the heart is governed by the spirit and the spirit lives in connection with God. It is here that the mind is overpowered and becomes an activist on its own. However, the fact that they are locked, covered, and sealed in the text does not move on their own, just as a tree is planted when the master plants a tree and collected when the soil is collected, so we can see that gardens, wells, and springs are passive, driven entirely by the hands of their masters without any active activity. “Not as I will, but as you will.” It should be the possessive, not the nominative. Here, the garden is the king's garden, so no one can enter without permission.
It should be full of secret beauty, not pretense. Because it is locked, covered, and sealed, it is a mysterious world where no one can enter, take it, or look into it easily. It has living water and is full of truth and inspiration that others do not know, and the truth and inspiration that comes out of its mouth quench the thirst for human emotions and pleasures. The Lord wants this heart, a heart that is always filled with grace and truth as it is connected to the source of living water and is not polluted from the outside. I hope that the hearts of the saints will be so clean and tidy and filled with beauty that the owner can satisfy.