Made for Love
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Song of Songs 8:5-14, Deuteronomy 4:24, John 10:27-30, Hebrews 8:8-13, 1 John 4:19
BY Rebecca Faires
Text: Song of Songs 8:5-14, Deuteronomy 4:24, John 10:27-30, Hebrews 8:8-13, 1 John 4:19
What makes you blush?
We don’t always blush from embarrassment; we sometimes blush in surprise and delight. Can you remember a time you blushed with delighted surprise? Sometimes I blush over gifts and sometimes I blush about compliments, but my cheeks were at their rosiest when I first met my love. There’s a certain look he used to give me that told me he was utterly slain by me—and, oh, how it made my cheeks burn. The surprises of love, the power of love, and love’s delights are the sweetest things I have ever experienced.
God didn’t have to allow us to fall in love with each other. I imagine that we could theoretically procreate, carry on the species, and get our jobs done without love. But God is love, and He gave us the subtle delights of love to hold all of life’s pieces together. Love elevates the mundane to magical.
Early on in our relationship, I remember us sitting in a car together; we talked and he touched my fingers—that was all. But when the car door opened for me to get out, I literally fell on the ground, I was so incapacitated. God didn’t have to let us fall ridiculously in love with each other. But He made us for love!
Song of Songs makes me blush. In fact, it makes me blush like a wedding night makes us blush—at the surprise and joy of intimacy.
There are two beautiful parallels between Christ as the bridegroom to the Church and the husband as bridegroom to his bride that stand out: People who love each other desire time together, and they pursue that time with one another in spite of obstacles.
“A huge torrent cannot extinguish love.” Have you ever longed to be with your beloved? We desire that Christ will write our name on His heart and in His book. He has done this, saying, “look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands” (Isaiah 49:16). And He invites us to write His name as a seal on our own hearts (Song of Songs 8:6-7).
“Rivers cannot sweep it away.” Have you ever loved in spite of obstacles? Just as the pains of disappointed love are like a death, the love of Christ for the Church is as strong as death. Our love for Christ makes us dead to everything else. Indeed, we cannot be separated from the love of Christ even by death (Romans 8:38, Song of Songs 8:7).
Without love we have nothing (1 Colossians 13:1). God’s intimate adoration cannot be bought or traded; we can’t earn it. It is impossible, inexplicable, and overwhelming. Just like falling in love.
56 thoughts on "Made for Love"
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Relying on his intimate love to sustain me. ❤️
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Just FYI, the scripture reference at the very end should be 1 Corinthians 13:1, not Colossians.
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Wow. Today’s study was such a beautiful reminder that love is a gift from God and that every bit of it only comes from Him. I have been struggling with being content in my singleness like some of you ladies, but I am so thankful to see that I am not alone in it. Thank you all for being so vulnerable and allowing King Jesus to speak through y’all by sharing little nuggets of encouragement and truth.
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I love the parallels in this section! It honestly makes my heart grow warm the way my fiancé does! To be in such an intimate kind of love … and to know that the ability, and the desire, to love and be loved is a true gift from God … WOW!!!
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“Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
The very flame of the Lord.
7 “Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor will rivers overflow it;
If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love,
It would be utterly despised.”❤️❤️❤️
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At first I was hesitant about this Bible study- I am a 23 year old who has never been kissed, been on a date or had a boyfriend. As much as my heart yearns for marriage and children, it just seems like I am not getting closer.
So you can understand my hesitance towards this study. However, it is helping me to focus on God’s love! His crazy, unimaginable, counter-culture love for us!! How great is our God!!
So thank you SRT for this beautiful insight into God’s love for me. So in my current season I will continue to pursue God and hopefully one day a Godly man will want to pursue me in order to give God all the glory.-
Hold firm, delight in the blessings God has for you as a single woman, and hope for the future fulfillment of the promises God has for you. My first kiss was at 27 with my now husband – I wouldn’t trade that for the world! But I had to remind myself constantly that my relationship with God as a single woman was so freeing because, as Paul points out, I only had to answer to Him and to serve Him. I can look back at my single-life with appreciation because it was an opportunity to serve God in a way that I can’t now that I’m married – I can’t hop on a plane and go serve overseas for a year, my resources are not my own, and my life is not my own any longer. I’m in a different stage of promises, blessings, and service (and still trying to figure them out) but, I urge you, to embrace your stage of life and run with it!
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I saw the first sentence of your post and realized I could have written it. I am in exactly the same situation, and I am so glad that God pushed me towards this study, even though I had planned to doing another one. It has repeatedly overwhelmed me (in the best way) with how great God’s love is! I pray that we never lose sight of how awesome His love is, no matter what season we face.
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Praying for you, Sarah Jane, as you see your completeness in Christ. I had my first boyfriend at 27, my first kiss (from him) at 28 and we’re now married @29yrs old. I thank the Lord that I waited for the man who was worth waiting for, who I was able to give my heart to.
But like Sarah M said, I would not have given up that time of growing in the Lord during those 27 yrs of singleness for anything! I gleaned from reading the Word, books, met with women in bible studies and mentoring from trusted women. May you find the joy and adventure in being single while you anticipate the man God has for you ❤ -
Though I am not in exactly the same place as you, I can tell you that your waiting season can bring so much glory to God. My boyfriend and I started our relationship with the expectation that we were going to wait to kiss until we are married (and let me point out that I’ve never been kissed by anyone). A girl in one of my college classes found this out and when she asked me why I’m doing this, I was able to share the gospel with her and explain why God’s design is best! God asks us to sacrifice things for him so that he can get the glory and so that we can be a light for him in the process.
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