OT Promise 403: Love is Strong as Death

Song of Songs 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; 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.

There may not be a more powerful way for God to say “I love you” in all of human literature than what the Bride says to her Groom in this verse. Love is strong as death! We know of no stronger force in God’s created universe than life and death. Because of Sin, Death has taken over everything; it is all-pervasive; it has separated us from God and from all that is life. Death is inevitable and nothing can stop it. It looms; it engulfs; it comes; it’s certain.

Ah, but there is Good News! We have a Promise! By the Resurrection of Jesus Christ “death is swallowed up in victory!” Life is stronger than death and it overcomes because it comes from the heart of God, which is absolute love. We will never comprehend the height, depth, length and width of God’s Love. We must ask for a revelation.

When our Lord God wanted to express his thoughts towards us and shout “I love you,” He must clothe them in words. He did: “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” He could not say it better or shout it louder. The Lord has set, always sets, and will forever set me as a seal upon His heart. He is jealous for our love and trust, and the vehement flame of the death of the Son of God violently loves us to Life.