This post and a conclusion tomorrow brings this mini-series on the Song of Songs to a close. I have said all along that it really is a worldview series. And it has been. I have been trying to demonstrate that the key to a life of sexual pleasure is having it the way God intended. All along the key lesson has been: What touches your body, touches your soul.
Today some thoughts especially for the married folks.
The Six Most Destructive Words for Real Romance
It is tempting to feel with all of this emphasis on sex and love and passion and purity this past month that we have been reading a romantic fairy tale and not the word of God. Let me assure you, that this series really hasn’t been about trying to prepare you for Valentine ’s Day or make you feel like you have been caught up in an Andre Bocelli song. Indeed, it’s not a fairy tale at all.
Indeed, if this had been a fairy tale, it would have ended after chapter 5, verse 2. The lovers would have come together on their wedding night, the friends would have sang, “Oh lover and beloved…drink deeply of this love!”
The violins would play, the screen would go black and the final words would say, “And they lived happily ever after.”
But that’s not what we have here. You know why? I think it’s very likely that “And they lived happily ever after” are perhaps the six most destructive words for real romance, for genuine love, for happy marriages.
Since childhood we have all grown up expecting that someday regardless of our problems, situations, or backgrounds we would get married to Mr. or Miss “Right” and would go off into the sunset leaving all of our past issues, family of origin problems, insecurities and brokenness behind to “live happily ever after.” Psychologists call this the Cinderella Syndrome.
With the exception perhaps of Shrek 2, we rarely have seen the rest of the story,
the ups and downs, the ins and outs, the pain and the deeper bliss that comes through a lifetime of love. And so, when pain hits, when problems come, when disappointment occurs and when the ordinary obstacles of real life occurs, we are unprepared for what it takes for love to last a life time, for passion to be permanent, for pleasure and promises to both endure.
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