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But look at a couple celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

Let’s make them our icon of sex. Their bodies may sag and creak.

Their hair is thin or gone. But we see in them something that

makes us want to cheer them on. Through them, and only

through them and that kind of committed love, shines something

of God’s glory.^7

As married couples, let’s look forward to a long life together, as
we continually learn more about the joys of sexual love within the
covenant of marriage. Like the lover and his beloved, let’s keep singing
Solomon’s Song. May we never cease from making that beautiful
music, our two voices joined as one in divine harmony, testifying to
the world and to one another of the goodness and glory of God.

NOTES

1. Tom Gledhill, The Message of the Song of Songs(Downers Grove, Ill.:
   InterVarsity, 1994), 23.


2. G. Lloyd Carr, The Song of Solomon(Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1984), 35.


3. Ibid., 49.


4. Duane Garrett, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon,The New American
   Commentary (Nashville: Broadman, 1993), 379.


5. Ibid., 367.


6. Carr, Song of Solomon,53.


7. William Frey, “Really Good Sex,” Christianity Today(Aug. 19, 1991), 12.

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