Love is as strong as death
Song of Solomon 8:6b-7 for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7) Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. When I first stumbled upon this verse, I was shocked to see such a comparison of love to death. Never had I ever seen such a thing. Whenever people speak of love, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 8 is always referred to or it is said that love is a verb and not a feeling or that it is a state of mind. I saw a whole new meaning to the word love and what it means and I finally understood God's love for us. Love in this sense has no cure. It is like death! When you die, you are dead. Nothing can bring you back to life except Christ. Death has completely taken over and there is no coming back from it. You are immovable, and you remain untouched by the things of the world. You can o