Last Summer, I had been strongly anticipating the theatrical release of The Dark Knight Rises, the third installment of Christopher Nolan’s amazing Batman movies. Expectations were high. After two fantastic movies about Batman, how would this third one complete the story, wrap it up, put a bow on top, and blow us all away? The answer is...it didn’t. The movie was not bad, but to many of us it felt like a major letdown. It just didn’t live up to the hype. While I did not leave the theater wanting my money back, by no means did I leave with my expectations fulfilled.
That said, how rare is it for us to feel fulfilled? Product after product, experience after experience, promises us fulfillment, but leaves us still wanting. It is an empty and disappointing feeling when we are unfulfilled. But it is a wonderful and exhilarating feeling when we are fulfilled.
In the first two scenes in Song of Songs, we saw a man and a woman longing for each other. There has been anticipation, excitement, pursuit, affirmation...but not fulfillment. This week, we will finally see their love come to be fulfilled. And as we do, we will get powerful, biblical insight into how we are invited to Love Fulfilled.
Dan
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