I have found the one my soul loves

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“Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me.” ~ Song of Solomon 3:4.

The Song of Solomon, is the strangest book in the Bible, one of the strangest ever to be included in a canon of sacred texts. It is written as a series of songs between two human lovers, candid, passionate, even erotic. It is one of only two books in the bible that does not explicitly contain the name of God and it has no obvious religious content.

Love is the energy God has planted in the human heart, redeeming us from narcissism and solipsism, making the human or divine Other no less real to me than I am to myself, thus grounding our being in that-which-is-not-me. One cannot love God without loving all that is good in the human situation.

Love creates. Love reveals. Love redeems. Love is the connection between God and us. That is the faith of religion and if we do not understand this, we will not understand it at all. We will, for example, fail to realize that the demands God makes of His people through the prophets are expressions of love, that what Einstein called “almost fanatical love of justice” is about love no less than justice, that the bible is God’s marriage-contract with the people and the commandments are all invitations to love: “I seek You with all my heart; do not let me stray from Your commands” (Psalms 119:10).

The sacrament of marriage is a beautiful sign of the Trinity and of our future glory as the bride of Christ, but it is in no way a replacement for a relationship with Christ Himself. It reflects the love of Jesus, but it can’t match it.

In her wonderful book Spoken For, Alyssa Bethke writes:

“God proved faithful. He knew my heart’s desires but also knew how I needed to let him fill my desires first before he placed anyone else into my life… I had idolized marriage for so long that I needed the Lord to break me from placing it above him. That summer the Lord tore down my idol and revealed that he alone was enough. He was my portion, and I was rich to have him.”

"I have found the one whom my soul loves" song of solomon 3:4

A beautiful verse to display at your wedding and to be used on your Christian t shirts!