Is Unfailing Love Possible?

"[Love's] flames are a blazing fire, the flame of Jah." -SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6.

'HOW warmly they exchange glances and tenderly hold each other! Who can deny that they are deeply in love!' These thoughts go through the mind of an elder who has just officiated at the couple's wedding.As the newlyweds gracefully move across the dance floor at the reception, he cannot help but wonder:  'Will their marriage stand the test of time? As the years go by, will their love deepen or will it take wings  and fly away?' When it proves to be unswerving and enduring, the love between  a man and a woman can truly be beautiful. In view of so many marriage breakups, however, it is no unreasonable to ask if unfailing love is really possible. 

True love was rare even in the days of King Solomon of ancient Israel.  Commenting on the moral climate of his day Solomon wrote:  "One upright man out of a thousand I found, but a woman among them I have not found.  This alone I have found: the true God made man upright, but they have  sought  out many schemes." (Ecclesiastes 7:26-29) Largely as a result of the influence of foreign women who practiced Baal worship, moral standards had dropped so low in his day that Solomon found it difficult to fins a man or a woman with good morals.  Still, the poem he wrote some 20 years earlier, the Song of Solomon, shows that enduring love can exist between a man and a woman. It also vividly portrays what that love is like and how it is displayed. Both married and single worshippers of Jehovah can learn much about such love by carefully considering this book. 

Next time: Is Unfailing Love Possible? -TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE!

From the Watchtower magazine, 2015