"I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?" Song Of Solomon 5:3
She does not see what it means to refuse to open the door to Him, for she is so nearly asleep, that her senses and discernment are clouded. Her own trouble, and what it will mean for her to rise and let Him in, are filling her mind, crowding out the apprehension of the sin she is committing. Her delay in opening the door does not look so heinous to her, for she knows that she loves Him; she would rejoice if He were within. She really desires to have Him within and longs to enter into that closer communion to which He is inviting and urging her.
Dear child of God, for what trifles have you and I repulsed our Lord when He has knocked upon our door and called us to rise up to higher ground? When He has called us to wait upon Him, and we found that it was hard to enter in, how quickly have we left our knees and gone away. We do not apprehend that He is calling us to get into the place where He can do something for us.
It only needs a few repulses through some trifle or selfish reason, and sleep will prevail. In the end, the bride loses what God is offering her and misses the blessing and revelation that He is waiting to bring her. The best God has for her, she carelessly lets fall from indolent and powerless fingers.
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