Song of Songs 1-3

“My beloved is mine and I am his” (2:16). This wedding song celebrates the fact that even in a troubled world, love is a beautiful gift when we handle it in God’s time and His way (3:5). Love (friendship and family, not just marriage) is a treasure “like a lily among thorns” and “like an apple tree among the forest” (2:2-3). Deep affection helps us through dark times: “The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come” (2:11-12).

The Song of Songs reminds us that God is the source of all love, and human bonds point us to Him. We can love, “because He first loved us” (1 John 4).