![]() ![]() How beautiful you are, my darling Oh, how beautiful! Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead. It’s as if they couldn’t find enough words to express how pleasing and beautiful they were to each other. ![]() The husband and wife took turns praising each other. This man and women found the deepest sexual pleasure together by focussing on the beauty of one another. I’ve read the book Song of Solomon many times, but recently God showed me something a little different. Isn’t it ironic how Satan wants us to enjoy sex outside of marriage but he works to sabotage sexual pleasure within marriage? How few married couples can truly say that they enjoy the gift of sexual intimacy, as God designed it to be enjoyed! ![]() This little Old Testament book gives us God’s stamp of approval for a married couple to deeply enjoy each other sexually. Is God truly that passionate? Is He really okay with everything this man and woman thought about, said and did together?īecause sexual pleasure has been so twisted in our culture, it can be difficult to grasp the fact that God created sexual intimacy to be exciting, vulnerable, powerful and satisfying. Yes, I know it’s a book about sex, but it still strikes me with its sensual, erotic imagery. Have you ever read a portion of the Bible that gave you pause? As you read, you thought, “That doesn’t seem to square with what I think about God.” This has happened to me many times reading the Old Testament prophets or the book of Revelation, but I also have that response whenever I read the Song of Solomon. ![]()
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