CHRIST’S ETERNAL LOVE
“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”, continues the Shulamite to speak about love in verse 7 of Chapter 8 in the Song of Songs. Dear bride of Christ, you may face problems or afflictions like many waters. The floods may come your way. Floods mean divine judgment being executed as a measure of chastisement by the just God. It can be bereavement or a big loss in business or any other great problem, which upsets your whole life. In the midst of such many waters or floods, you would feel the presence of Christ (Is.43:2) As you open the Bible, He will comfort you by His Word. As you kneel down for prayer, you will hear His small voice. The people of God will speak words of comfort or of prophecy as led by the Holy Spirit when you are in the furnace of afflictions. Many waters cannot quench His love. The love cannot be equated with or measured in terms of worldly things. You may express your love to someone by gifting some costly thing. The most precious thing of this world cannot substitute love. Even if you start giving away one after another of all worldly possessions to some one whom you love, you would still be found on the negative side only; both the sides cannot be equal. We cannot equate the love of God through Christ Jesus with the glory of the whole world. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. But in return for such love of God, you cannot compensate Him by offering any thing of this world or the whole world. God loved not only a particular nation or a particular race or a particular religious sect called ‘Christians’ but the whole world so that He gave Christ for all the peoples of this world including Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, etc. The love of God towards the human beings is so pervasive over the whole system of the universe or the cosmos that all the celestial bodies are made to function for the benefit of the human race on the face of the earth. The love of the omnipresent God holds and secures the earth in the universe.
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