This book is a series of poems or love songs. There is a real passionate romantic love between a man and a woman. This romantic love is to be exclusive, has to be expressed, has Eros love and is forever.

1. Keep on seeing it

We are to focus on the good things and not the negative. We are to keep on seeing the positives and focusing on them for a lifetime.

2. Keep on securing it

See Song of Solomon 2:15. It is the little things that spoil romantic love and destroy a marriage. Here are some little foxes:-

• Living beyond our means – It is not what you have is important. We are to be content.
• Separate stuff – E.g. Separate bank accounts, separate bed times and separate holidays.
• Extended family tension – We are to leave much of this behind when we get married.
• Unresolved conflict – Disagreement, silence, time and back to normal. You have to work things out.
• No time alone – You need some time alone together to talk things over.

If you have little foxes in your marriage make sure to shoot them! Take them out before they take out your marriage. You need to be ruthless.

3. Keep on savouring it

See Song of Solomon 1:1. If you want to enjoy wine you need to smell it, look at it, try a little bit and then taste it before you swallow. This is a bit like romantic love. It is not to be hurried. Don’t guzzle it! God has given you a treasure and you are to appreciate and enjoy it.

4. Keep on sealing it

See Song of Solomon 8:6-7. It is a seal of permanence. It is a public faithfulness. It is like having a tattoo. Others will know that you are taken. Romantic love and marriage is forever.

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