Study 3A :“I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.”the abandon vineyard...

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Study 3 THE NEGLECTED VINEYARD
THE SONG OF SOLOMON


Key-verse: ““They made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected””
(Song of Songs 1:6)
These haunting words are most challenging to all who are engaged in the service of the Lord, and they should be read in conjunction with Proverbs 24:30-31 – – “I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.”” The warning which comes to us in this study may be summed up in the statement, ““Beware of the barrenness of a busy life!”” Too often public profession and activity are accompanied by inward neglect and spiritual declension. The one who confesses her neglect in this passage was not neglectful of her duties. She had been made black by the sun as she had laboured among the vines in the heat of the day; she was the keeper of the vineyards –- but she had neglected her own vineyard. Notice that three things are indicated in the words upon which this study is based.
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1 . THE PRIVILEGE WE ENJOY
What is it? It is this: that we as Christians, as servants of the Lord, are keepers of the Lord’’s vineyards. We have been saved by His wonderful grace and He has set us in a sphere of service where we are to labour for Him. We are in that place by Divine appointment. Notice the force of the words, “”They made me…”…” The speaker had been made, compelled, to keep the vineyards. The same is true of us. We did not choose to serve the Lord, He chose us (John 15:16). All we did was to obey His call (Matthew 21:28), and allow His love to constrain us to be His servants (2 Corinthians 5:14). What are the vineyards in which we are serving the Lord? In a word, our vineyard is just where the Lord has placed us. If you are a mother, your vineyard is the home; if you are in business, your vineyard is in the office; if you are a soldier, your vineyard is in the army; and if you are a preacher, your vineyard is amongst the people to whom the Lord has commissioned you to minister His Word. The manager of a large company once asked his minister to present the claims of Christ to the members of his staff. Why did he do this? He did it because he recognised that his vineyard was his business, where God had placed him. What a privilege it is to be a keeper of one of the Lord’’s vineyards! But immense dangers face us. “”My mother’’s sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards;”” –- and then follows a confession, ““my own vineyard I have neglected.”” Consider this quietly, and search your own heart about it.

I will talk on the remaining two points tomorrow in the B-part of this study.God bless you....

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