Devotion 760

"The Love Of God Cannot Be Quenched"

Reference: Song Of Solomon Chapter 8

This Love is greater than jealousy. It is greater than death. It is greater than the grave. It is the Love that is no respecter of man or woman. It is the Love that brings together all nations, the Jew and the Gentile. It is the Love that was expressed on an old, ragged cross for whosoever will believe.

Let's read;

Song of Solomon 8:1-2 "O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. [2] I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate."

The Love of God in the second Adam unites the brothers, the Jew and the Gentile. Nothing can unite man outside the love of God expressed in the second Adam.

We continue our reading:

Song of Solomon 8:3-6 "His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. [4] I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. [5] Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. [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."

How strong is Love? Love is stronger than the greatest army, than disease. Love is stronger than your sin, for Love is God.

We continue our reading:

Song of Solomon 8:7 "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."

 Nothing can quench the pursuit of God's love after man. The Love of God chases man even to the gates of hell. God does not want any man to perish, but to come to the saving knowledge of Him through the work of the second Adam.

We continue our reading:

Song of Solomon 8:8-13 "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? [9] If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. [10] I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. [11] Solomon had a vineyard at Baal–hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. [12] My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. [13] Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it."

What God sees is different from what man sees. In the eyes of God, all men are equal. It's difficult for man to see others from that perspective. Jesus Christ, the second Adam, will go to the cross if it was just for you. No matter who you are, you are born with the light of God, and God thought it worthy to redeem you through His sacrificial death. Man, look on the outside. God sees the light inside.

We conclude our reading:

Song of Solomon 8:14 "Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices."

The believer is in love with the lowly shepherd, for they have found life in Him. And nothing can separate the believer from the love which is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:38-39 "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, [39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Accept this unquenchable Love. BELIEVE and confess Christ, the second Adam, as we've revealed Him from the first Adam. Nothing can separate the believer from this Love, in Christ!