Read Song of Solomon 6.
"What's mine is yours." That statement announces an unreserved presentation
of one person to another. There is no holding back, no secrets, and no
place for selfish protection. Joyfully giving up a sense of ownership to
a spouse for life is a Biblical understanding of marriage.
The Apostle Paul wrote in no uncertain terms, "The husband should give to
his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For
the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.
Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the
wife does." (1 Corinthians 7:3-4)
"But I have my rights," some would say. "It is my body and
I can do what I want," others claim. Maintaining those views of
personal rights will not only violate the Scriptural statements of marriage,
but they will hinder and then destroy the relationship.
Notice the statements from the text expressing this sense of belonging.
Husband: "This is my beloved and this is my friend." (5:16)
Wife: "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine." (6:3)
Husband: "My dove, my perfect one, is the only one..." (6:9)
Jack S. Deere comments that her nickname, Shulammite (v.13), in Hebrew is a
feminine form of Solomon. Others so identified her with her husband, as a
couple, that they referred to her in that manner; Solomoness, if you
will.
Eve was called Woman "because she was taken out of Man." The
declaration was "therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and
hold fast to his wife, and they all become one flesh" (Genesis 2:23-24).
Oneness is not sameness. Rather, it is two opposites that complement
each other to form a whole.
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