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Song of Solomon chapter 8, verse 7.

Many waters cannot quench love.

Neither can floods drown it.

This is one of those verses in Song of Solomon.

It's like an ode to love.

It's a celebration.

Again, in Solomon of here, a romantic love.

And you can almost read this and picture like a boy with a crush on a girl with just all this excitement and emotion just overwhelmed.

I remember when I first went out and 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 of love.

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.

Like 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 in 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

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