Turn on any music radio station and you will probably hear a love song. It is the subject that dominates music and it has dominated literature and film too. This is evidence that romantic love is one of the most important things to us in life. So it should not be surprising that there is a whole book of the Bible dedicated to celebrating this aspect of life. The book of the Songs of Solomon has been interpreted in many ways and throughout history Jews and Christians have looked for deeper allegorical meanings in this book. And that may be profitable. However, people have often done this on the assumption that the Bible would never contain a book that was simply about sex and romantic relationships, would it? Well, yes it would. And why not? The Bible speaks to real life and sexual relationships are a central part of real life. Right at the start of the Bible the man-woman relationship takes centre stage in the first recorded love-song in history: “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” (Genesis 2:23). The Genesis account portrays male and female as two halves of one whole and together they form the image of God. It is therefore natural and desirable that a man and a woman should seek to be united in ‘one flesh’. And in this relationship we reflect God, which is why we should treat it as sacred and be prepared to work to maintain its strength.
Pray for your relationship or those of others who need your prayers.
Read Song of Solomon 1-3
