Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
In our recent modest excursus into the Song of Solomon (SS), we dwelt on Christ’s use of the love portrayed there as illustrating His love for His pure, true church. Someone asks, Are you limiting the SS to that stratospheric theology way over our understanding? Is there no value in the book re human sexuality? Or is it frankly dangerous to read with that in mind?
No, it must be that God intended the book to be read as sexual human beings because it was He who created us male and female and the love within sex is not something shameful of itself (the shame has been displaced as a consequence of the fall in Eden; it was not originally associated with sex per se).
The book is a primer on the love that is in sex—pure love, love that is forever, where a promise is a promise and commitment is heart-commitment forever (“Close your heart to every love but mine; hold no one in your arms but me. Love is as powerful as death; passion is as strong as death itself..... Water cannot put it out. No flood can drown it. But if anyone tried to buy love with his wealth, contempt is all he would get,” 8:6, 7, TEV).
It’s about married love that is free of the poison of shame or guilt, as love was in
God put the book in His holy Bible; let Him speak through it! Youth need to read it with understanding. It is inspired. Jesus Himself quoted from it. The rewards of loving obedience to the ten commandments of God are immense! And in this great final Day of Atonement the much more abounding grace and love of Christ is to lighten the earth with glory as Elijah the prophet proclaims his message of reconciliation (Mal. 4:4, 5; Rev. 18:1-4).
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