Death-Like Love

Song of Songs 5-8; Psalm 51; Proverbs 22:24-25

 

Place me like a seal over your heart,

    like a seal on your arm;

  for love is as strong as death,

    its jealousy unyielding as the grave.

  It burns like blazing fire,

    like a mighty flame.

 

Many waters cannot quench love;

    rivers cannot wash it away.

  If one were to give

    all the wealth of his house for love,

    it would be utterly scorned.                         - Song of Songs 8:6-7

 

People want this kind of love. I do. And the awesome thing is that I have it! That’s the kind of love God has extended to me through Christ’s cross and resurrection. And it’s the kind of love Christy and I have extended to each other because we are recipients of God’s love.

 

This is a special love, a strong love, a tenacious love that holds on even through the worst storms. Seriously! Have you ever thought about love like Solomon does here? For love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. Who would find something in common between love and death? Solomon did. When you die, death never lets go. When you give yourself to someone else’s love, that person is rightly going to guard you with his life!

 

Sure, there might be minor—even major!—spats and fights. There might be times of sinfulness. Perhaps times of bankruptcy. It might be tough to make it through together—it might feel like it would be easier to make it out of the pain and brokenness alone. But love is what pulls a marriage through, and what makes it safe to entrust yourself entirely to someone else.

 

Father, thank You for loving Christy and me. Thank You for bringing us together. Thank You for teaching us about love—about the kind of love that never lets go. And thank You for not only teaching us about it, but guiding us into it. Give us the strength to love each other as deeply as You love us, as faithfully as You. And redeem this broken world so that everyone can experience this amazing love of Yours!