Strong as Death

The bride in the Song asks to be set as a seal upon her lover's heart, and then comes one of the boldest lines in all of scripture, that love is strong as death and that many waters cannot quench it, neither can floods drown it. This is the kind of love a marriage is meant to carry, fierce and durable, able to survive what would sink a lesser thing.

Pornography sells a counterfeit that behaves the opposite way. It is quenched the moment the screen goes dark, and it drowns under the first real demand for patience or sacrifice. A man raised on that counterfeit may doubt he is capable of the enduring kind.

Take heart that the love the Song describes is finally God's own love, the flame that death itself could not put out, and he is the one who kindles it in a human heart. Ask him to seal you to your wife with a love like that, one that many waters cannot quench, so that you stop trading something eternal for something that evaporates before morning.