THE KING' S BUSINESS When one comes to know Him, our Solomon, and opens his heart in con fession and adoration, and He opens that heart of His, the heart of love and devotion, there is nothing possibly com parable to the joy of the soul. Seeing Him, knowing Him, communing with Him face to face, seeing the King in His beauty, hearing His tender, com passionate words of comfort and love. “ Come unto me.” “ I will give you rest.” “ I am meek and lowly.” “ Ye shall find rest for your soul,” pillowing your head upon His bosom and saying, “ I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” The imagination of the thought of the hu man heart has never conceived of any thing equal to this in our earthly pilgrimage and there is nothing to ex ceed it in our future glory, excepting the promise that we shall be then like Him for we shall see Him with unveiled eye. (3) SEEING HIS GLORY, vs. 4-6. The half had not been told. When she had seen all, it broke in upon her soul. The whole Bible is too small— the ages are too brief to tell the story of Him who was in the beginning the Word, and John puts in a few words (John 21-25): “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should he written every one, 1 suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.“ From the third of Genesis to the “ Even, so come, Lord Jesus,” of Reve lation; from Adam and Eve to those living today; it is one continuous story of His Wisdom, of His power, of His works, of His words, of His compassion ate love, of His sacrificial blood, of His patience, of His grace, of His bleeding, •broken heart, of His purposes and plans for His own, of His anticipation, of His longing for the wedding day, of the consummation of His Father’s plans for Him and His own. It cannot be told, only hinted at, as it is suggested in (Eph. 2-6) :
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shall It be concerning the fame of Je hovah (Jer. 50:5). We have in the glory of Solomon and his Kingdom an acted prophecy of the millennial glory. The fame was concerning the name of the Lord. The good queen of Sheba heard the news. It had been carried upon the tongues of the people. They had seen; they had heard. The heart of the queen was hungry to know the truth of the report. She could not believe it could be true. Who was this Lord whose presence and power had made Solomon so famous? She must know for her self. She was curious. She was eager. She was honest. She was definite. This is God’s order concerning His Kingdom and His Son. “ Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” The fame of our Lord Jesus has reached the ends of the earth, thank God, but not in the measure it should have done. The failure lies at the door of the emissaries of the Gospel, who have failed to carry the news, and the failure has robbed our Lord of His de served glory, and robbed millions of the saving joy of knowing and seeing Him, whom to know and see is eternal life. There are two sentences pregnant with meaning: “ Go and tell,” and “ Come and see,” and these two embrace the essence of the believer’s obligation. We can only testify that which we know and can only have persuasive power when we can say, “ Come and see.” “ Is not this the Christ?” (Jno. 1, 39, and 4:29.) (2) SPEAKING TO THE KING, vs. 2-3. “ She communed with Him.” She had made a seventy-five days’ journey to see and hear for herself. It was a long journey involving much of discomfort and danger, but she now saw him face to face. She opened her heart to him and he opened his heart to her. Get the picture if you can, and sense its, full meaning.
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