Romantic Love

    Romantic love has been strongly associated with a state of intense feeling, where emotions are heightened and even small details seem extraordinarily important.   Both elation and sadness are thus exaggerated, and the senses sharpened.   While the result may be a state of euphoria, rest assured that when love is based on principle this doesn't imply a state of continual light-heartedness.   "Better is vexation than laughter, for by the crossness of the face the heart becomes better" (Ecclesiastes 7:3) says God's Word.   In love, then, problems are beneficial.   Proverbs 14:13 puts it this way "Even in laughter the heart may be in pain; and grief is what laughter ends up in."   Love, clearly, must include serious and even sad thoughts, but this does not detract in any way from the wonderment and immeasurable delight of romance.   To quote a proverb, "There are three things that have proved too wonderful for me, and four that I have not come to know: the way of an eagle in the heavens, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of an able-bodied man with a maiden" (Proverbs 30:18,19).

    The Bible book Song of Solomon, or Canticles, is the story of the love of a shepherd boy for his beautiful girl companion.   In it the empassioned lover describes the curving of his love's thighs as "ornaments", her breasts like "two young ones, the twins of a female gazelle" (Canticles 7:1,3). This love story was long regarded in a highly reverent way by the Jewish people as a symbol of God's love for his people.   Here we also read "love is as strong as death is" (Canticles 8:6). Further on the theme of love, this same inspired record says "if a man would give all the valuable things of his house for love, persons would positively despise them" (Canticles 8:7).




Back to More Love

Back to Love

Back to Basics Page

Back to Main Page