Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth remembers getting some important guidance.

I'm so thankful for parents in my life who had the courage to say, no, at times, to have a dad who would say when I came down for my senior recital on that dress.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, March 24th, 2016.

For several weeks, we've been studying the Song of Solomon.

The series is called How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus.

Here's Nancy to continue.

Well, we come today to a passage in the Song of Solomon that I think is perhaps the Old Testament version of that great New Testament love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13. A lot of similarities. And I'm referring to a

passage in chapter 8, verses 6 and 7, where the bride says to her beloved, we looked at the first part of this

in the last program. She says, set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death. Jealousy is cruel as the

grave. Its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love,

nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love all the wealth of his house,

it would be utterly despised.

Now, chances are that you've heard those verses at one time or another at a wedding,

and that's certainly an appropriate place to use them.

But I want to suggest that this description of love speaks more broadly of the nature of genuine love in whatever context, and in particular

of Christ's love for His people, because it's His love that is the source of our love for

Him and our love for others.

You can't have this kind of love in marriage if you don't have the love of God flowing into your heart, filling you and flowing through you to your mate.

Now the question is asked in this paragraph, love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave?

Is this speaking of the bride's love for her beloved, or is it speaking of his love for his bride? Is it speaking of our love for

Christ or his love for us? And I think the best answer is probably yes. It's speaking of both.

The fact is, according to 1 John 4, we love him because he first loved us. We couldn't

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