In Song of Solomon the sin of the bride is like great mountains or hills that separates her from her beloved Groom. Sin separates us from God. Here is One Altogether Lovely. And yet we cannot come near Him. We have no right of access, no privilege of communion. We are by nature condemned and separated from the only One who is good. But our Groom, the Lord Jesus, came for us.
When I began this series I wrote: “God has not only furnished us with a world that speaks of His power and majesty, but a world also which is full of what Jonathan Edwards called “divine images”. Because of the Bible, these things which God has created bear witness of Him. With a Bible in our hands the world is – in a sense – transformed, so that everywhere we go we cannot help but think of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.”
When you look at the mountains, what are you meant to think of? They are beautiful of course, and they are a testament to the creative might of God. But they are more than evidence of a great Creator. We know that because God has said more than that.
When you see the mountains or perhaps large hills remember the following:
First, remember that God’s righteousness is like great mountains. In other words, as Spurgeon explains, His righteousness is “firm and unmoved, lofty and sublime.” God is immovable, and as He is immovable so is His righteousness. He cannot be anything but righteous. He cannot act in unrighteousness because He is righteous. Even as the great mountains cannot be moved, nothing can ever move Him to be otherwise. Like the great mountains His righteousness is high and awesome. It is a righteousness that is beyond our comprehension. It is also a righteousness that – to the eye of His believing children – is glorious to behold. His is a righteousness that is very great. Unlike our shallow weak and shakeable righteousness, His is a towering, wonderful and unshakeable righteousness. The psalmist says, “Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep (Psalm 36:6).”
Second, remember His great power. Though the mountains are very great, the Bible says that God moves them. He overturns them as if grabbing them by their roots. Think for a moment of the power needed to grab a medium sized tree and pull it up by the roots. How great and mighty is God? As if pulling weeds from a garden He overturns the mountains by the roots (Job 28:9). Job 9:5 says, He “removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.” Psalm 65:6 says, Why by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girdeth with power.” It is by their strength that the great mountains rest where they do. He created them out of nothing, He holds them fast, and He removes them at His pleasure.
Third, remember God’s wonderful protection of His people. Psalm 125 says, “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.” Ponder those glorious words for a moment. There is nothing like the strategic advantage that mountains provide. In olden days cities surrounded by mountains were close to impenetrable.
