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This chapter
is often thought of as a dream. After
all, the bride is sleeping, but her heart is awake. That sounds like the setup for a dream to me.
What is the
point of this situation, dream or not? We
see reality in the relationship. The
groom comes to his bride, but he’s locked out.
The bride makes excuses for why she can’t come to the door in a hurry.
The reality
is that all relationships have moments of cooling. It is a natural cycle within the marriage for
things to seem normal, even bland. Human
beings find places of normalcy. In fact,
as much as we claim to love excitement, the truth is that many of us crave a
normal day where things go as planned.
Normal, unexciting times in a marriage are just an outcropping of humanity.
That being
said, normalcy should never equate to uncaring.
A stable relationship is not a cold relationship. While we may not always have excitement, we
should never be distant, either. That’s
where the bride shows she’s gone wrong. When
the relationship grew stable and normal, she allowed it to create emotional
distance.
The great
thing about this chapter is that it also shows a repentance of the heart. The bride comes out of the expression of
distance and immediately begins to praise her groom. She refocuses upon the qualities that her
groom brings to life. When she becomes
aware that she has allowed distance to grow out of normalcy, she brings herself
back into the relationship with a new passion.
Relationships
cycle. It is entirely normal. We need to be careful the normal doesn’t become
distant. When it does, like all sin in
life, we repent and try again.
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