{"id":4133,"date":"2009-03-02T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-03-02T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T03:00:40","slug":"song-of-solomon-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/03\/02\/song-of-solomon-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Solomon 8:6"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Love is strong as death.&#8221;<br \/>\n              &#8212; Song of Solomon 8:6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whose love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs,<br \/>\nthe destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it<br \/>\nwere applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely living love to Jesus my<br \/>\nLord? I do love him, and perhaps by his grace, I could even die for<br \/>\nhim, but as for my love in itself, it can scarcely endure a scoffing<br \/>\njest, much less a cruel death. Surely it is my Beloved&#8217;s love which is<br \/>\nhere spoken of-the love of Jesus, the matchless lover of souls. His<br \/>\nlove was indeed stronger than the most terrible death, for it endured<br \/>\nthe trial of the cross triumphantly. It was a lingering death, but love<br \/>\nsurvived the torment; a shameful death, but love despised the shame; a<br \/>\npenal death, but love bore our iniquities; a forsaken, lonely death,<br \/>\nfrom which the eternal Father hid his face, but love endured the curse,<br \/>\nand gloried over all. Never such love, never such death. It was a<br \/>\ndesperate duel, but love bore the palm. What then, my heart? Hast thou<br \/>\nno emotions excited within thee at the contemplation of such heavenly<br \/>\naffection? Yes, my Lord, I long, I pant to feel thy love flaming like a<br \/>\nfurnace within me. Come thou thyself and excite the ardour of my<br \/>\nspirit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For every drop of crimson blood<br \/>\nThus shed to make me live,<br \/>\nO wherefore, wherefore have not I<br \/>\nA thousand lives to give?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why should I despair of loving Jesus with a love as strong as death? He<br \/>\ndeserves it: I desire it. The martyrs felt such love, and they were but<br \/>\nflesh and blood, then why not I? They mourned their weakness, and yet<br \/>\nout of weakness were made strong. Grace gave them all their unflinching<br \/>\nconstancy-there is the same grace for me. Jesus, lover of my soul, shed<br \/>\nabroad such love, even thy love in my heart, this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Love is strong as death.&#8221; &#8212; Song of Solomon 8:6 Whose love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs, the destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it were applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely living love to Jesus my Lord? I do love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}