Admittedly not as epic as heaven...Meh.
Hmm...today, I think I'll chat a bit about love. Not the stuff I see in magazines, or on the TV...But real love. Or maybe I'll break out a real post about pudding...no, love.
Reading over at "Life as me" I was confronted with a question I had no answer to, and to which "Wow you're odd" wouldn't work (I usually apply that last one to anything involving politics or TV shows). Le question, vas "I believe that man was designed to have a lifelong female partner. Which makes sense, if you read Genesis. My question is...why?"
Pause a moment, if you would. The scientifical answer would be that it's chemical's in the brain, and complex emotions, and that humans needed a way to procreate. That's...odd. And though possibly a small part of the answer, not the real answer.
So I diggidy diggidy dug, and here is what I found. Plenty of times in the bible does God refer to Jerusalem (The redeemed church) as His bride.
Isaiah 54: 5, for one:
For your husband is your Maker—
His name is Yahweh of Hosts—
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
He is called the God of all the earth.
And who can forget the awesome coming of Jerusalem as the bride in revelation 21?
Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." He then carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God."
Christ, of course, is the lamb. Pointed out earlier in Revelation. The holy city is the redeemed church.
Finally, with much red faced-ness, I 'll flip over to Song of Songs. Or maybe not. I may or may not have taped those pages together. :D
Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
Love flashes like fire,
the brightest kind of flame.
That's in chapter 8, verse 6. It's also apparent that very few relationships are as close as that of husband and wife. Song of Songs makes that abundantly clear...But so do many other parts of the Bible. Take a look at Genesis 2:23-24:
And the man said:
This one, at last, is bone of my bone,
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called woman,
for she was taken from man.
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
True enough, many people take that as meaning only physical relationships. But it's not.
What am I trying to get across here? Well, so far we've seen that:
The relationship between husband and wife is extremely deep. Enough to leave your home for.
That love is extremely strong. That really has no point in this conversation, it's just an awesome thing. XD
That the husband is the wife's hero, and savior. I didn't write out any verses on that, but passages in Isaiah, the book of Hosea, Revelation, Song of Songs, and even the Book of Ruth illustrate this. I've got them, just trying to trim the length of this post.
What I'm trying to say is, since love comes from God, love between man and women is, in a small way, showing how God's love works. Demonstrating it for humanity to see on a small scale, everyday.
All those things: The husband being the savior, having a relationship that your willing to leave everything behind for, the fact that love is so strong...that all points to God. God saving the church and Bride in Revelation, God saving his "wife" (the church) from certain destruction (later on in Isaiah). God, willing to go to all lengths for our love, even to the point of dying for us...
Anyway, that's my answer. That the love between a husband and wife is in a small way, demonstrating God's love throughout history.
Mmm...could've just said that and spared everyone the long and painful post.
Nice. Drop a comment for questions, railing against, or...well, comments. Or if you want those other verses I talked about. I hope any of that made sense.
like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
Love flashes like fire,
the brightest kind of flame.
That's in chapter 8, verse 6. It's also apparent that very few relationships are as close as that of husband and wife. Song of Songs makes that abundantly clear...But so do many other parts of the Bible. Take a look at Genesis 2:23-24:
And the man said:
This one, at last, is bone of my bone,
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called woman,
for she was taken from man.
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.
True enough, many people take that as meaning only physical relationships. But it's not.
What am I trying to get across here? Well, so far we've seen that:
The relationship between husband and wife is extremely deep. Enough to leave your home for.
That love is extremely strong. That really has no point in this conversation, it's just an awesome thing. XD
That the husband is the wife's hero, and savior. I didn't write out any verses on that, but passages in Isaiah, the book of Hosea, Revelation, Song of Songs, and even the Book of Ruth illustrate this. I've got them, just trying to trim the length of this post.
What I'm trying to say is, since love comes from God, love between man and women is, in a small way, showing how God's love works. Demonstrating it for humanity to see on a small scale, everyday.
All those things: The husband being the savior, having a relationship that your willing to leave everything behind for, the fact that love is so strong...that all points to God. God saving the church and Bride in Revelation, God saving his "wife" (the church) from certain destruction (later on in Isaiah). God, willing to go to all lengths for our love, even to the point of dying for us...
Anyway, that's my answer. That the love between a husband and wife is in a small way, demonstrating God's love throughout history.
Mmm...could've just said that and spared everyone the long and painful post.
Nice. Drop a comment for questions, railing against, or...well, comments. Or if you want those other verses I talked about. I hope any of that made sense.
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