Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
– Song of Solomon 8:7
This is one of those verses in Song of Solomon. It’s like an ode to love. It’s a celebration again in Song of Solomon of romantic love.
Song of Solomon 8:7 reveals the enduring power of covenant love.
And you can almost read this and picture a boy with a crush on a girl, with just all this excitement and emotion, just overwhelmed. I remember when I first went out on a first date with Heather, now my wife, and I mean the week leading up to that date, my eating patterns changed. My sleeping patterns changed. I just thought about it all the time. My dad was like, “Son, you got a problem?”. I was like, “No, dad, I got a date”. And the beauty of Song of Solomon is not like an immature picture. This is like a deep picture of emotion and exhilaration and enjoyment and beauty, and love. The way God is designed for a husband and a wife to experience that.
In a way that can’t be quenched, and floods can’t drown it out. It’s just so powerful. And so in a day where so many marriages are not marked by this fire and love and flooding, overwhelming love, let’s pray for this knowing. This is God’s design for marriage. And for those of us who are married, let’s work to cultivate this kind of deep, overflowing, delightful love in marriage.
Let’s all pray for other marriages around us to experience this. And for all of us, whether married or single, to experience this kind of love relationship with God himself. I mean, one day marriage is going to be no more. That’s the way the Bible describes New Heaven and a New Earth. Well, marriage in terms of the ultimate reality will still be there. Jesus and his Bride.
Song of Solomon 8:7 reveals the relentless strength of God’s love for us.
But this is the ultimate love relationship we are made for. And we’re made for fiery love, like in a good way, and an overwhelming love relationship with God himself. Oh God, we pray for this for all of us. I pray for this in my own life. God, I pray for this over every single person listening to this right now. I pray for ever-deepening intimacy with you.
God, I pray that you would fuel the fire of love in our hearts, in relationship with you, and you would help us to abide in your love in the depth, the height, the width, the length, the breadth of your love for us. Lord, we pray over each other right now, Ephesians 3, that we would know how great your love is toward us in Jesus, that we would trust in your love. We would abide in your love. That we would believe in your love for us. We would rest in your love for us.
That we would enjoy your love for us to the full. And that we would love you with all our heart and soul and mind, and strength out of the overflow of your love for us. God, we pray for this in each of our relationships with you. And God, we pray for marriages that depict this. God, we pray that you would help us to cultivate for those of us who are married, deep delight and love in relationship with our spouse. God, we pray for other marriages around us to experience this. We just think about other marriages right now and pray Song of Solomon 8:7 over them. God, please help them to experience the gift of love that you’ve designed for marriage.
Prayer for the Fedicca-Mohas Nubian People
And God, we pray that you would help us to spread this love to the ends of the earth. We pray specifically today for the Fedicca-Mohas Nubian people of Egypt and other countries in North Africa, for the Fedicca-Mohas Nubian people to be reached with your love in Jesus.
God, help us as your church to love the peoples of the world enough to do whatever you call us to do to get the gospel to them. And we intercede today for the Fedicca-Mohas Nubian people. God, please, please, please cause your love to spread to them. Open their eyes to your love in Jesus, cause disciples who made churches to be planted as a display of your love among the Fedicca-Mohas Nubian people. We pray all this according to your Word, which we love in Song of Solomon 8:7. In Jesus’ name, we pray the name of the One who loved us enough to give his life for us, and whose love for us is fresh and new today. Amen.
David Platt serves as a Lead Pastor for McLean Bible Church. He is also the Founder of Radical, an organization that makes Jesus known among the nations.
David received his B.A. from the University of Georgia and M.Div., Th.M., and Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Some of his published works include Radical, Radical Together, Follow Me, Counter Culture, Something Needs to Change, Don’t Hold Back, and How to Read the Bible.
He lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area with his wife and children.
