"How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. How handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant." Song of Solomon 1:15-16 (NIV)
The words of King Solomon in The Bible book the Song of Solomon, are the words of a lover to his beloved lady, and the replies that she speaks to him. It is a love song of a man to his wife and her replies of love to him. These are believed to be the words of King Solomon to his first wife, the Shulamite maiden, before he married the 699 others and took the 300 concubines.
The "call and response" pattern of a man expressing his love to a woman, followed by the woman expressing her love for her man, is repeated throughout the eight chapters of this book. This is the love that is expressed during the courtship, the engagement period, and during the honeymoon of marriage, before the storms of life take away the sweet innocence. As we go through life we need to remember the love that we had at the beginning of our relationships, and keep that before us as we progress through the years of marriage from the blissful beginnings to the marital maturity. Our love for our mate should be as Christ's love for the Church, strong, unfailing, patient, kind, and enduring. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
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