"Cephalus...was relieved to have escaped the "mad and furious master" of the more youthful pleasures. This resonated with a 17-year-old who could already see that love was a problem - a force associated with anguish, bondage, obsession...It is fun, I suppose, to feel faint like the "Beloved" who sighs in the quicksand of her emotions, "I am sick with love" (Song of Solomon 2:1-7)...But it begins to seem too, that love has its drawbacks. Falling in love can be debilitating, enfeebling, and all-consuming...But love is a sleeping tiger, and Song a solemn warning of its bottled-up danger, a force which if approached unwisely will consume a man and all he has (8:6-7, Proverbs 5; James 1:14-15, Jude 8, Revelation 18:3) Are you ready for those feelings? I have been young and now I am old, and I adjure you, O children of Jerusalem that you "not awaken love until it pleases". Heed the caution, that you also may enjoy the garden in season. The wise man will take care for his affections and keep them in the bound of God's design, while the foolhardy will tickle the slumbering Leviathan before its time.
Andree Seu
Normal Kingdom Business pp 45-48
