Song of Solomon

Mars Hill Church in Seattle is doing a phenomenal sermon series on the Song of Solomon. I probably can't regurgitate everything I have absorbed so far, but I'll give it a shot. Just one of these nuggets would be enough for the time to be worth it.

(1) Standard of Beauty - The SoB of every man who is eventually going to be married is his future wife. There are no 8s or 8.5s or 9s when it comes to a husband judging the beauty of his wife. Just like Adam looked at Eve when God brought them together and desired her, a husband's opinion of his wife's beauty is always a resounding 10. It is NOT okay to let the garbage of the entertainment world's glamorization of Hollywood hotties seep into my mind and create some kind of impossible standard of beauty. My standard of physical beauty will be whoever I pledge my life to in marriage. Until then, I keep my eyes open for someone that is HOLISTICALLY attractive.

(2) Priority - Knowing that God has called me to full time ministry (whatever that means), I've always tried to keep that first in my life. And I guess that is fine while I am single. Whatever job God has me doing is important and worth my attention, but whenever it is that I get married my ministry will be to my wife. My life will change in that my relationship with Jesus will remain first, but second is my duty to love my wife until I die. Then comes whatever position I hold in whatever church I am serving. A husband's ministry is to his wife.

(3) Garden - A prudent woman has kept her body like a locked, private garden not a public park. Cleavage = Grievage

(4) Wedding - The first day of marriage is not nearly as important as the LAST day. I like what Mark and his wife Grace agreed on: they will never speak of divorce or consider divorce as an option. Whatever comes around the corner, they will deal with it and work through it. I like that. Total commitment. Marriage use to automatically mean that, but with today's relationships that is not so anymore.

(5) Wife's Role - Mark Driscoll and his wife think it a scriptural principle for the wife to remain at home with the kids. They are big on the traditional gender roles. His wife said at one point: I can't imagine handing my kids over to a daycare 5 days a week (while tearing up). Looking at the quality of parenting today, I could see huge benefits in this whether you believe it is mandated by the Bible or not. Home schooling is a different story, but if both parents are tied up in full times jobs and responsibility, how can the kids be given the attention and teaching they need to overcome the temptations of this world. This is not to say that the wife cannot work while they are without children.

Those are all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm grateful that Mars Hill is doing this untouched book of the Bible. It was a genius move because even Biblical sex sells, and that's one product you don't have to worry about overindulging in...when you're married.

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