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TRUTH that Song of Songs teaches |
ACTION that Song of Songs invites |
1. Keys to achieving moral purity
Maintaining moral purity until marriage is the key to establishing a solid Christian marriage. In view of the prevalent social acceptance of immoral sexual conduct, it's very important that GOD's people renounce impurity and put a lot of effort into reaffirming the commitment of moral purity in the church. |
1:2-4
Understand that feeling physically attracted to the wife or husband is completely natural.
2:7
Refuse to have sexual relations before marriage...Knowing that is compromises the success of the marriage.
3:5
...Knowing that it compromises the necessary objectivity with which the relationship and premarital decisions should be analyzed.
8:4
...Knowing that it weakens the couple's ability to make the necessary adjustments in their marital relations once they are married.
8:8,9
Christian families: Occupy yourselves with the healthy development of the sexual morality of your children. Encourage and offer support to their sexual purity. Create the defenses that help to protect them against the attempts to separate them from a healthy sexual conduct.
8:10-12
GIVE IMPORTANCE to virginity!! Never discredit the ability to present oneself in body and soul before the wife or husband completely pure and reserved for him or her. |
2. Warning to the couple
A satisfactory engagement minimizes marriage difficulties. Many couples marry without being prepared to manage the situations that they will confront. Although brief and indirect, that lesson that the romance between Solomon and the Shulamite offers should be taken into account by those who are ready to get married. |
1:7
Understand that learning to know and accept our future partner as he or she is is of greatest importance. Consider any hidden idea of changing that person to be absurd.
1:8
Know that it's better not to go ahead with plans to marry someone whom you can't accept as he or she is.
2:14,15
Take time to identify and resolve potential problems that can confront the marriage. Confront them honestly and openly.
8:6,7
Decide to develop a strong and unbreakable tie with your marriage partner. |
3. Keys for a lasting marriage
Successful marriages result from practicing those principles that have been proven throughout the centuries by innumerable couples whose love and mutual understanding have been strengthened and intensified with the passing of time. Today, when the cultural standards that surround us wage war on the Christian marriage (seeking to redefine, dilute and obscure our understanding of this GOD-created institution), it becomes necessary to recover these principal stimuli. The Word of GOD is, naturally, the place to begin. And what better place than this poem of divine love? |
4:1-7
Married couples, learn the old art of courting through conversation. Learn to express words of love that caress the soul of the mate.
5:1
Understand and believe that the LORD continues viewing sexual relations within the marriage as something "very good" and blesses them.
6:4-9
Exalt the virtues of your partner above everyone else throughout your marriage.
7:10-13
Regularly set aside periods of time with your partner in order to refresh and renew the romance in your marriage. |
