Shallow

Love Songs

By Dean Fulks, June 21, 2026

Human love is an imperfect of God’s love



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Song of Songs 7:1 – How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.



Song of Songs 7:2 – Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.



Song of Songs 7:3-4 – Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus.



Maturing love displays this balance between and



Song of Songs 7:5-9a – Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine.



Song of Songs 7:9b-10 – It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.



Song of Songs 7:11-12 – Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.



Marriages need reminders



Song of Songs 7:13 – The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.



investments lead to love



Revelation 2:4 – But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.



We can become people with full and empty



We cannot substitute for God in the place of with God



Revelation 2:5a – Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.



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