God's Unquenchable Love

Many waters cannot quench love. (Song of Sol. 8:7)

Song of Solomon 8:7; Jer. 31:3; Luke 7:47; John 3:16; Eph. 2:4-5; I Cor. 13:7; Jude 21

What Is God Saying?

Solomon's beautiful song deals with the intimacies of human love. Human love is one of God's great gifts even as its abuse is one of Satan's subtle invitati0ns to misery and frustration. When human love is realized within the bounds of God's laws and grows beneath the sunlight of His blessing, it is true that many waters cannot quench it. Hard times and unwelcome circumstances bring true lovers all the closer. This is how it is when human love has God's blessing and is guided by His truth.

How Does This Apply To Us?

Human love, at best, is but a shadow of divine love. God's unquenchable love is the prototype of all true human love. It gives without demanding. It sacrifices without counting the cost. It never gives up. ‘It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things’ (I Cor. 13:7). So the truth dawns—if any love is unquenchable, if there is any love that cannot be drowned by troubles or extinguished by adversity, it is the love of God. Jeremiah heard and believed the Lord when He said, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore, I have continued my faithfulness to you’ (Jer. 31:3). That is the unshakeable foundation of our prayers. God's love is everlasting. ‘Many waters cannot quench it neither can floods drown it.’ Prayer responds to that love, counts on that love, and claims that love.

Pray With Me

O God, my comfort is this—You are eternal love. God is love. Love always was. Love always is. Love never fails. Your justice is without flaw. Your truth is without end. So also is Your love. As man will never sound the depths of Your power, so he will never see the end of Your love. How wonderful to realize that divine love cannot be overcome and will never be exhausted. I want to be more willing to share this love, knowing that the source will never run dry. Let my life be a cup running over because it receives from a cup that is running over. Since nothing can quench Your love for me, let nothing quench my love for You and others. The real test of real love is that it cannot be quenched.

I regret some things I have done, thoughts I have harbored, words I have said or left unsaid that might have quenched a lesser love. With words of promise on my lips, I have cherished compromise in my heart. I have said, Thy will and meant, my will. I have been with You in the glory of the upper room, I have rested in the strength of Your redeeming love, and I have tasted the goodness of Your presence, only to sometimes turn back. Still, Your love is not quenched. The many waters of my imperfect love for You have never quenched Your love.

I want to keep in such close fellowship with You that my love will also be unquenchable. If I would have Your love, I must have it for others. It is only as I live in the sunshine of Your love that I can learn to hate all that is opposed to God. As I give unquenchable love I will be counted worthy as a disciple of Him whose love was more than conqueror over hate, emnity, and death at Calvary. Let the ideal become the real.

In the name of my Lord and the spirit of His love. Amen.

Moving On In The Life of Prayer

Prayer in Jesus' name is prayer in the love of God. That is why, in the prayer of faith we can come with our greatest burdens, look for our greatest deliverance, live in greatest freedom, and receive God's greatest blessings. The secret lies in knowing that God's love is unquenchable. Love always was. Love always is. Love never fails. In prayer, we go in to be renewed in that love. In service, we go out to share it.