It's that week when men all over the country have to scrounge up a gift to embody the love, adoration and unending favor towards that special lady in their life.
Back in college I took a course on 14th Century literature. How great was that stuff! The whole idea of courtly love and a knight adoring, even worshipping a woman from afar is too foreign for our culture. Today's day has so much vulgarity and so little romance.
One defined romance as "the unknown".....that small element of unknown keeps a marriage alive just as a cool rain after a drought. Romance is doing something towards one you love that has been kept secret, been saved, been wrapped in a closet for 3 weeks, been waiting to be given. It is selflish and extravagant.
Isn't the Bible the ultimate love story? The Scriptures say,
"As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God." - 1 Corinthians 2:9-10.
Most people interpret this passage as speaking of heaven someday.....Charles Spurgeon had a different approach:
"But any one who reads the connexion will discover that the apostle is not talking about heaven at all. He is only speaking of this - that the wisdom of this world is not able to discover the things of God - that the merely carnal mind is not able to know the deep spiritual things of our most holy religion.
He says, "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God."
And then he goes on lower down to say, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
I take it, that this text is a great general fact, capable of specific application to certain cases; and that the great fact is this - that the things of God cannot be perceived by eye, and ear, and heart, but must be revealed by the Spirit of God; as they are unto all true believers. We shall take that thought, and endeavour to expand it this morning, explaining it concerning heaven, as well as regards other heavenly matters."
That verse fits the ultimate meaning of true romance.
Something hidden, saved for just the right moment, bursting with love and power into the life of the receiver. God did that for the world. He lavished his most precious gift, "HIMSELF", through His Son in the most romantic gesture ever given. As the song says, this gift was "written in red"...blood red.
Jesus, Lover of My Soul!
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