How beautiful is the bride? Song of Songs 2:1–2 prepares us for the evening sermon on the coming Lord's Day. In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the bride is beautiful with the King's beauty. The passage reveals Christ as the ultimate source and definition of beauty, affirming His identity as the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valleys. He delights in His bride because He has transformed her from a state of thorn-like fallenness into a likeness of Himself. Her beauty is not self-derived but a participation in His, reflecting the divine purpose to conform believers to the image of His Son. Identity with Adam's fallen lineage is replaced by union with the last Adam, urging believers to cultivate Christ-esteem rather than self-esteem, and to treat one another with the same delight and hope that Christ has in His bride.