The Power of Love
"Many waters cannot quench love." Song of Songs 8:7
Two octogenarians, one from Germany and the other from Denmark, were an unlikely couple. They had each enjoyed sixty years of marriage before being widowed. Though living only fifteen minutes apart, their homes were in separate countries. Still, they fell in love, regularly cooking meals and spending time together. Sadly, in 2020, due to the coronavirus, the Danish government closed the border crossing. Undeterred, every day at 3:00 PM, the two met at the border on a quiet country lane and, seated on their respective sides, shared a picnic. "We're here because of love," the man explained. There love was stronger than borders, more powerful than a pandemic.
The Song of Songs offers an impressive display of love's invincible power. "Love is as strong as death," Solomon insisted (8:6). None of us escapes death; it arrives with a steely finality we can't break. And yet love, the writer said, is every bit as strong. What's more, love "burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame" (v. 6). Have you ever watched a fire exploding in feverish rage? Love - like fire - is impossible to contain. "Many waters cannot quench love." Not even a raging river can sweep love away (v. 7).
Human love, whenever it's selfless and true, offers reflections of these characteristics. However, only God's love offers such potency, such limitless depths, such tenacious power. And here's the stunner: God loves each of us with this unquenchable love.
- By Winn Collier
How does love in this life reflect the love shared by God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit? How do you sense God loving you now?
God, I need Your powerful, deep, love. I need Your love that won't be extinguished and won't let me go. Will You show me this love today?
This message taken from: Our Daily Bread
Two octogenarians, one from Germany and the other from Denmark, were an unlikely couple. They had each enjoyed sixty years of marriage before being widowed. Though living only fifteen minutes apart, their homes were in separate countries. Still, they fell in love, regularly cooking meals and spending time together. Sadly, in 2020, due to the coronavirus, the Danish government closed the border crossing. Undeterred, every day at 3:00 PM, the two met at the border on a quiet country lane and, seated on their respective sides, shared a picnic. "We're here because of love," the man explained. There love was stronger than borders, more powerful than a pandemic.
The Song of Songs offers an impressive display of love's invincible power. "Love is as strong as death," Solomon insisted (8:6). None of us escapes death; it arrives with a steely finality we can't break. And yet love, the writer said, is every bit as strong. What's more, love "burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame" (v. 6). Have you ever watched a fire exploding in feverish rage? Love - like fire - is impossible to contain. "Many waters cannot quench love." Not even a raging river can sweep love away (v. 7).
Human love, whenever it's selfless and true, offers reflections of these characteristics. However, only God's love offers such potency, such limitless depths, such tenacious power. And here's the stunner: God loves each of us with this unquenchable love.
- By Winn Collier
How does love in this life reflect the love shared by God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit? How do you sense God loving you now?
God, I need Your powerful, deep, love. I need Your love that won't be extinguished and won't let me go. Will You show me this love today?
This message taken from: Our Daily Bread
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