- David and Jonathan were best friends. They had laughed and cried together. They made promises to each other.
- David describes Jonathan’s love as being better than the love of women.
- The love of women is what we call a euphemism. It’s talking about the love a husband and wife get to share together, being naked and unashamed.
- We know David had a love of women. He’s already married a couple and later he’ll get himself in trouble desiring after a woman.
- David is not saying he love Jonathan as he loves a woman. David was a man after God’s heart. God’s law calls that sinful, for a man to love a man as he would a woman. David, though imperfect, sought to honor God’s laws.
- This verse is not about that at all.
- It’s about a love that’s better than that physical kind of love.
- This is a more perfect love, a love that connects souls, not just bodies. It’s a love that is unchanging, unfailing.
- It’s a love that keeps no record of wrong, always forgiving.
- It’s a love that is kind and generous.
- It’s a love that isn’t selfish or proud; it’s a love that thinks of others first.
- It’s a love that always trusts.
- It’s a love that always protects.
- It’s a love that always hopes the best and endures to the end.
- It’s the love of God.
- It’s the love that we can rest in for eternity because we know we are secure in His unfailing, unchanging love.
- It’s the love that once we know it, fills us with all the fullness of God (Eph. 3:19).
- May God help us all to understand how much we are loved and to receive that love, God Himself to dwell richly within and through us.