Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth says a godly growing marriage is a picture of the gospel.

A husband and wife love each other, not because of performance or merit of the other one,

but fueled by the spring of God's grace and his love, then they're revealing that love of God

to a world that has no clue what God is really like.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, March 21st, 2016.

A couple of years ago, we aired a teaching series on the Song of Solomon called How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus. It was such a meaningful look into the transforming,

amazing love that Jesus has for us. Now we're revisiting this important series this year leading up to the Easter season.

And it's interesting for me to hear the series again, now as a married woman.

It occurs to me that studying the song of Solomon was so helpful in preparing to be a wife

to my husband, Robert.

Way better than the world's idea of romantic love, as you'll find it

in a lot of popular books and music and movies. Now, as we pick this series back up, we're going to

look at some of the practical ways that this biblical love story can shape our lives.

We're taking a little time out, a little parenthesis in our study of how to fall and stay in

love with Jesus to look at the Song of Solomon in a little different light, and that is how does

it speak to the issue of intimacy in marriage.

But I'm just trying to highlight some of the principles in the Song of Solomon that to me are

very obvious ingredients if you want to have intimacy and oneness in your marriage.

Keeping in mind that the point of marriage, the point of marriage, in a Christian sense, is to reveal the story of Christ's love for his bride

and the bride's response to her bridegroom, the church's response to Christ.

And so whether your marriage, you know, where it is on a scale of one to ten, matters.

Where your marriage is, and its trajectory, matters.

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