Today, I am reading and commenting on  Song of Solomon 1-8.

The Song of Solomon teaches us a few lessons about God’s intentions for sexual love.  First and foremost it teaches us that sexual love is not, in and of itself, a sin.  The writer also emphasizes the importance of waiting for sexual love until the right time.  We learn from this passage that we should not seek out sexual relations before the time which God has ordained for us.  Which reminds me of the debate going on in our society today over what, when, and by whom children should be taught about human sexuality.  This passage addresses the issue of when, and its answer is that it will be different for each person and we should not attempt to encourage a child’s sexual nature before that time which is unique to them.  There is one last point I see in this passage which I want to write about.  In this passage, both the male and female protagonists consider their lover to be uniquely beautiful.  In like manner, we should wait until we find a sexual partner whom we find uniquely beautiful and attractive, a lover whom, for us, no other can ever match.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.