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we can devote ourselves to that will eventually become old hat. Even the most fascinating hobby, career, or
interest is eventually apt to become boring.
But there are a few things that are actually designed to get better with
time. Love is one of those things. The longer you love, the better love is
supposed to be. Yet, Jesus said that at
the end of time people's love would begin to wane (Matthew 24:12). Of course, He used the antonym for wane. Why?
Perhaps because real love doesn't naturally fade. Diminishing love should be considered a
strange thing to us. Waning love would
be an anomaly. So, if love is
decreasing, it is because we are actively pursuing something that is detracting
from it.
In Song of Solomon 4 we read some rather
intimate compliments that Solomon paid to his bride... indicating his affection
and attention toward her. Now, here in Song
of Solomon 7 we find even more intense language. Using purely erotic terms, Solomon speaks to
his wife in ways that make us blush to read them. Solomon's aphrodisiac was his calendar. The longer he knew this girl, the more he
loved her. He was on a journey looking
for stronger and stronger ways and words to use to tell the Shulamite just how
much he really did love her. Of course,
their love would have been emotional, spiritual, intellectual and experiential...
but any human can have these connections with any other human, regardless of
gender, age or relationship. The
physical union of spouses is the one expression of love that is reserved as a
high and holy language of acceptance between a husband and his wife. And, as such a unique and exclusive way of
communicating our fondness for one another, this manner of loving should
increase in sweetness and in preciousness.
Similarly, the love relationship between our Savior and us should
increase in depth and intensity as time passes.
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