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“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it” (Song of Solomon 8:7).
“All Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me” (Psalm 42:7).
Even among human beings, love has led people to make some tremendous sacrifices for others. Many times in the history of this world, people have suffered and even died for others because they loved them dearly. But no one ever endured the suffering that the Lord Jesus went through, yet nothing could quench His love.
Water in the Bible is sometimes a picture of the judgment of God, and especially when the water is the waves of the ocean. Such waves can be very high and very strong. Yet nothing could turn the Lord Jesus aside from His suffering on the cross, for His love was stronger than all that suffering. All God’s judgment for sin had to pass over Him, but His love rose above it all. Romans 5:8 reminds us that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” There was never any love like His!
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