FOR LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

MAY 26

 

Song of Solomon 8:6

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 grace: the coals thereof are coals of fire,

 which hath a most vehement flame.

 
Death has conquered all.
 
The wisest,
  the strongest,
  the bravest,
  the kindest,
  the holiest,
     all have been conquered by death.
 
It has triumphed over myriads, and
  tuned our world into a vast graveyard.
 
But love is equally strong, it conquers all.
 
The love of Jesus is stronger, for it conquered death itself.
 
And we are the objects of that love.
 
He says, “I have loved you.” He proves it-
   “Greater love hath no man than this,
    that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
 
He has proved the strength of his love
  by the gifts he has conferred upon us;
  by the visits he has paid us—
  by the tears he shed for us—
  by the labour he undertook to perform for us—
  by the sufferings he engaged to endure for us—
  by the death he died—by the desire he cherishes—and
  by his constant intercession on our behalf.
 
His love overcame all difficulties,
   triumphed over all opposition,
     conquered all foes, and
     now reigns in his bosom as a ruling passion of his manhood,
     and as a glorious perfection of his Godhead.
 
His love passeth conception.
 
Let us retire to-night impressed with the thought, that the love of Jesus is unalterably fixed on us as believers in his name.
 

My blessed Saviour, is thy love

So great, so full, so free?

Behold I give my love, my heart,

My life, my all, to thee.

 
James Smith