“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.” Song of Solomon 8:7 NKJ
“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.” Song of Solomon 8:7 NLT
God who is love,
We say it and we sing it – God is love. And yet we cannot deny You are also Judge. And yet for all You see our sin and must judge us guilty for it . . . Your love for us, personally, intimately cannot be quenched.
Here Solomon talks about love. Not lustful love which burns out, not possessive love which suffocates and not blind love. But love that cannot be put out or bought. Jesus came and suffered once and for all for our sin and died. (1 Peter 3:18). He did not buy our love he offered us His in return for our sin. And a life of being loved fully by You God.
We all need to know we are loved. To know that belonging. We gain some of it via our friends and family. But there is something deeper, wider and everlasting about the love that God offers through Jesus, that Christless eyes can never see. Oh fill us with Your love Lord that we may have not just enough but plenty to keep us healthy and generous in sharing it with others in word and deed.
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
Worship Tuesday 10th June 2025
Last line of each verse says it all (Song of Solomon 2:6) The second hymn is because it kept going through my mind as I considered todays reading and brings me to tears in gratitude.
Loved with everlasting love,
Led by grace that love to know;
Spirit, breathing from above,
Thou hast taught me it is so.
Oh, this full and perfect peace!
Oh, this transport all divine!
In a love which cannot cease,
I am His, and He is mine.
Heaven above is softer blue,
Earth around is sweeter green;
Something lives in every hue
Christless eyes have never seen:
Birds with gladder songs o’erflow,
Flow’rs with deeper beauties shine,
Since I know, as now I know,
I am His, and He is mine.
Things that once were wild alarms
Cannot now disturb my rest;
Closed in everlasting arms,
Pillowed on the loving breast.
Oh, to lie forever here,
Doubt and care and self resign,
While He whispers in my ear,
I am His, and He is mine.
His forever, only His:
Who the Lord and me shall part?
Ah, with what a rest of bliss
Christ can fill the loving heart.
Heaven and earth may fade and flee,
Firstborn light in gloom decline;
But, while God and I shall be,
I am His, and He is mine.
Lyrics: George Wade Robinson
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
That is wider than the deepest sea
And so I know it covers even me.
There’s a depth to His compassion
That is deeper than I’ll understand
And so my life is safe within His hands.
His love is deep enough for me
To cause these blinded eyes to see
To set this lowly captive free from sin.
His grace is flowing from above
Reflected in the Saviour’s love
O precious Father help me take it in.
Geoff Baker
CD: Spring Harvest, Take Off Your Shoes, ICC.