...can't be wrong. -Toy Caldwell
I suppose it might seem odd to find the Song of Songs included in Old Testament wisdom literature.
This song, composed they say by Solomon for the dusky maid of verse five in the opening chapter.
And taken simply as that, a love song, its beauty thrills the heart.
Who wouldn't love and be loved like this?
Our professor of Old Testament at Ouachita Baptist College may have been correct in stating that we were too young for him to teach from this portion of scripture.
The young lovers in "Romeo and Juliet" were willing to die for their love.
But as we see here, we must be willing to live for our love.
To endure.
The Reformation Study Bible notes that we find three qualities of love between a man and a woman revealed here: self-giving, desire and commitment.
What a thing it is to have experienced such a love.
Who can live these qualities to perfection?
There is One who can and does perfectly love.
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.
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