Love Is Strong As Death!

Hi! and happy good mid-week to all of us, GUYS.  Our "daily bread" this Wednesday:

THE GOOD NEWS (21 December 2016)

"Set ME as a seal on your heart,

set ME as a seal on your arm.

For love is strong as death;

its jealousy lasting as the power of death,

it burns like a blazing fire,

it blazes like a mighty flame.

No flood can extinguish love

nor river submerge it.

If a man were to buy love

with all the wealth of his house

contempt is all he would purchase."

- Song Of Songs 8:6-7

(Love is strong as death... The Song ends with the promise of the eternal union of the LORD with HIS people.  The love of the jealous GOD is strong, and strong also is the love that HE puts in the heart of HIS children: who will separate us from the love of CHRIST? [Romans 8:35]

Love - as it is here expressed whether divine or human is the same if it is sincere - is far removed from what our society knows.  The love of man and woman has been freed from the constraints of social life, and has overcome little by little the secular prejudices of masculine domination, thus becoming the privileged place for communication between persons, at the same time seen as an increased fear of "losing one's own life" in binding oneself totally to another person.  Many try to combine what is contradictory: a love that leads to the fullness of joy and the fullness of self, and a secret decision to break as soon as one sees the possibility of finding something better.

Here  the biblical text gives priority not to happiness but to love.  The Song is the will to know love at whatever cost, and the Gospel tells us the price.  Marriage will be restored in such a way: people marry to respond together to a call, and happiness here below will be a free gift in the way GOD wishes to give it.)

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