Song of Solomon 8
The Security of Marriage!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, December 12.
Did you know that for a marriage certificate to be valid, it must be signed and sealed? But the real security of marriage is through the presence of God being in the couple’s love, as highlighted in Song of Solomon 8:6-7:
Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, jealousy is as severe as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, nor will rivers overflow it; if a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.
This is the only reference to God within the Song of Solomon. The phrase, “the very flame of the LORD,” emphasizes the point of his book, as expressed by a commentator, “Love is represented here as a force which is able to overcome the negative forces that threaten the very existence of the world and mankind. In other words, Love gains the victory over chaos and creates wholesome order and life.”[1] There is only one who can secure you in such an embrace of love, and it’s not your spouse. It’s God, and the very real experience of human love, between a man and a woman, for which this book poetically celebrates, is a mere reflection of God’s perfect love. God has secured your relationship with Him through Jesus’ sacrificial love, as John taught in 1 John 4:9, “By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” When you are finding marriage difficult, remember the security of God’s union with you, and love your spouse as Christ first loved you (Ephesians 5:25-27).
Seize the moment and trust God for His gift of love – “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:11).
God bless you!
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