Song of Songs – A Growing Love
Romantic love and affection should grow in intensity and understanding throughout the course of a marriage. This was God’s purpose from the beginning.
Romantic love and affection should grow in intensity and understanding throughout the course of a marriage. This was God’s purpose from the beginning.
Whatever else we may learn from studying the “Proverbs 31 woman,” we should see a beautiful example of marriage as God intended in the beginning.
Jesus rightly recognized that Deuteronomy 24 does not include any command that a man must divorce his wife. Instead, Moses “permitted” divorce because the people had rejected God’s perfect design established in the Garden of Eden.
The creation ideal of one man and one woman united by God for life was not maintained, even among the Israelite people. For this reason, the Lord gave them specific instructions which illustrate the importance of God’s design for marriage.
Whenever we reject God’s wisdom and follow the wisdom of this world, we bring pain, suffering, conflict, and disappointment on ourselves.