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Song of Solomon chapter 7 verse 6.

How beautiful and pleasant you are,

O loved one, with all your delights.

Now this is one of the only verses in Song of Sullivan, Chapter 7

that I felt comfortable reading in light of a lot of different people of different

ages listening to this podcast because this chapter is full of descriptions of

the lights that a husband and a wife experience in one another in marriage and that's kind of the point and you see it, hear it, here in verse six, how beautiful and

pleasant you are, oh loved one, with all your delights. This husband is just

like listing out all the things that are delightful about his wife.

All of her delights and this perspective is so important. Yes, in marriage and in any friendship or relationship with other people

to look for all the different evidences of God's grace and God's beauty in that person.

So the way it plays out in marriage, and this is so important because in marriage, yes, another person sees you and all the delightful things in you, but also sees the things in you that are not as delightful.

I mean, marriage is so humbling because... things in you that are not as delightful.

I mean, marriage is so humbling

because you start to see in yourself things

that are not delightful.

And no person is perfect and every single thing in us is delightful.

We all have weaknesses and struggles.

And so if we're not careful in marriage,

we can get focused on those things instead of

continually stepping back and saying here are the things that are delightful about you and continually pointing to those things

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