Love can be hurt by sex. It can be killed by sex. Therefore, love has to be protected.
There is a verse in the Bible which has not yet received due attention in this respect. It is Genesis 2:25: “They were both naked, the man and the wife, and were not ashamed.”
Naked and not ashamed.
“Naked” is not meant here in a physical sense only. It means to stand in front of each other stripped and undisguised, without pretention, without hiding anything, seeing the partner as he really is and showing myself to him as I really am – and still not to be ashamed.
Naked and not ashamed.
But this ultimate goal of mature love is promised only to those who, as the previous verse says, have left father and mother and cleave to each other, in other words, those who have been publicly and legally married.
These two – not the ones before or outside of marriage – become one flesh
These two – not the ones before or outside of marriage – shall succeed in the tremendously difficult task: to face each other as they really are, to live with each other – naked an yet not ashamed.
Naked and not ashamed – this is what the Bible means by the word “to know”. “Adam knew Eve, his wife.”
To know in this way is not possible outside of marriage. If it is tried beforehand, love is hurt or even killed.
Therefore, love has not only to be learned; it has to be protected as well.
It has to be protected by divine will. By listening to human reason we cannot protect love…love has to be protected by the One who is love Himself. There is never a contradiction between love and divine will. There is no action of love which goes against a commandment of God.
Excerpt from
Love is a Feeling to be Learned
by Walter Trobisch
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