Genesis 34:1-4
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.”
The prince's infatuation with Dinah was lust, not love.
Lust consumes, love constructs.
Lust looks for what it can get out of something.
Love looks to what it can give to it.
The prince didn't know her last name, her interests, her hopes or her dreams. He only knew his interests in her and his hopes and dreams associated with her.
Lust seeks to serve itself at the expense of others.
Love seeks to serve others at the expense of itself.
Ecclesiastes 10:16-17
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Feasts are meant for the end of the day.
Sex is meant for marriage.
A land where princes delight in doing things out of order will experience a boom of disorder. When your prince and principles are out of order, everything that flows downstream from them will produce increasing measures of disorder and inordinate affection.
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