Song of Songs 4:9 (NASBStr)
“You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride;
You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes,
With a single strand of your necklace.
Love has an emotional response that can cause a physical response. God has so caused our bodies to act in peculiar ways when love strikes the heart. In the above verse Solomon tells his lover that her mere glance at him caused physical and emotional responses. The newlyweds are in love and his heart beat can prove it. He has not grown numb by the stress of life or the cares of life or the looks of other women. This women alone has captured both his eye and his heart. We might not always feel the same way about love or being in love. Measuring love by the feelings we get is actually a poor matrix to use for such an important aspect of life. Love is still an action and not an emotion, despite what physical and emotional reactions we may get. But, when it comes to romance this verse gives us a picture. Like a car with an instrument panel of gauges to inform us about the engine, so, too, has God given us an instrument panel of emotion and physical indicators to tell us when love is strong. His eye-gate is the only instrument needed to engage the rest of the body. He sees her and her beauty changes his condition. Beauty, here, is in the "eye" of the beholder. We should rejoice that God has created us so. We should thank God for the connection we "feel" between love and emotion and physical changes. God has connect our senses with our sight. No other creation on the earth has this type of connectivity in this depth of pleasure. Rejoice in how God made you and me. Rejoice in the pleasure you can enjoy with the one God gave you to love.
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