What's The Meaning of Love 5

<p>Friday 5th February 2021&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>A beautiful Friday to you in the name of Jesus. &nbsp;We thank God for today, it’s the first weekend in the month of February. I pray God’s grace and peace will flood your life in the name of Jesus. We are still talking about our subject “What’s the meaning of Love?”</p> <p><br></p> <p>Song of Songs 8:6-7 (NLT)&nbsp;</p> <p>6 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>When I was in high school, students used to use portions of the Songs of Solomon to write love letters to one another because there is a lot this bible book has to say about love. This scripture however communicates love as a powerful force, in verse 6 it says, “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death”. Look at the way the words are arranged, love is something desirable but death is not usually desirable, yet the bible puts love and death them together as powerful concepts. People fear death but love doesn’t carry such feeling of fear, yet the bible says “love is as powerful as death”, death cannot conquer death. Then it says that love flashes like fire, just the way we see lightening, it’s like the brightest kind of flame. These description of love depicts something powerful. But generally, when people talk about love and the power of love, such power as this usually doesn’t come to mind because the awesome power of love is tacit, so it is usually underestimated. It goes on to say in verse 7, “Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.” This portion of scripture somehow begins to help us really see the power of love. If love can’t