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“Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave…Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it” (Song of Solomon 8:6-7).
Love and jealousy are some of the strongest emotions in the human heart. Down through the ages many people have died for others because of the bond of love between them. Husbands have died for wives, and wives for their husbands. Parents have died for children, and soldiers have died for their comrades. On one occasion during World War II, a hand grenade was thrown into a concrete bunker by the enemy. Several men were in the bunker, including their commanding officer. Had the grenade gone off in the normal way, all of them would have been killed. But the commanding officer immediately fell on top of the grenade and took the force of it himself. He died of course, but all his men lived.
The love of the Lord Jesus led Him to give Himself for us, not when we were His friends, but when we were His enemies. There is no love like His!
No man of greater love can boast,
Than for His friend to die.
Thou for Thine enemies wast slain:
What love with Thine can vie?
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