The First Love Song

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Genesis 2:23-24 KJV)

For the secular humanist, this has no meaning. To them, there is no God, therefore Adam and Eve could not have existed. They are a figment of a tribal imagination striving to explain a traditional view.

For the secular humanist, so are believing Christians a type of tribe imagining a way to explain a traditional view when it is socially obvious that humans were built for pleasure and the many way to express it personally. If it feels good, do it.

In my opinion, their imagination is limited to human sensations, lacking a connection to a spiritual relationship with One capable not only of creating our known universe, its inhabitants from blazing suns to boson particles, but of being interested enough to create sentient beings to commune with Him and each other.

In doing so, He created a man who sang the first love song to the woman who became his wife. As it was written later, the author was inspired to include the reason a man leaves his parents – for the love of the woman at and of his side.

Within a few generations, that thought was forgotten. Skeptics today look at the multiple wives of the patriarchs and think that was the biblical plan for the family. No. The Bible describes truth. The truth is that mankind took what God made and changed it to match what men want.

God has a plan for each one of us. If we do not fulfill it, it is our loss, not His. Mordecai knew this and explained to Esther:

Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:13-14 KJV)

Esther didn’t respond simply on Mordecai’s word:

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. (Esther 4:16 KJV)

Esther entered into a loveless marriage, with a man who was known to discard wives and keep concubines. Yet hers was as much a part of God’s plan as Adam and Eve’s. Let’s remain in His plan, being part of a love song if only between ourselves and our Lord.