Meditation

MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE 1
Songs of Solomon 8:6-7

Usage of Waters/Floods
1. The enemy
Isa 59:19… When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

Re 12:15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

2. The world
Jer 46:8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

Jer 51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

3. Difficulties/Weariness
Jer 12:5…. if in the land of peace, In which you trusted, they wearied you, Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

Love defined
Love, i.e. affection or benevolence
Love goes beyond feeling, it is a decisive commitment and dedication to having affection or benevolence
Love never fails
1Co 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Key Words: What Love does and why it cannot be quenched

Bears : to roof over, to cover with silence (endure patiently) bear, suffer

Believes :Faith, trust, absence of suspicion

Hopes: to expect or confide:

Endures: to stay under (behind), i.e. remain; figuratively, to undergo,have fortitude, persevere:–abide, endure, (take) patient(-ly), suffer, tarry behind.