Love is strong as death-Solomon 8:6

What a strange comparison! Love -    the flowering; emotions bursting forth, warm, passionate- enslaving in its intensity...embracing- outpouring in its giving and more giving and yet receiving with the same fervour, energy and power .  Death in the physical sense is more of a  release...letting go ...the end of a purpose-leaving space for others to shoulder on. Your task is completed and your mission done.. And yet YT would  say , in a strange way, love & death are equally gripping, equally demanding-compelling,  equally possessive, equally overwhelming. 

Death is seen by many  as  the essence which brings new beginnings.  You  first make a conscious effort to bring to an end something ,get rid of what is no more relevant, clear your inner space leaving you room to  embrace the new. 


Love is strong as death...no power on earth can overcome death..could escape from the clutches of death, except God..--it is that powerful-that strong..And so comparing it with love? Love is powerful, yet so fragile, so breakable-SO it would be a real blessing to find a  love that  could remain strong unto death...to the grave -everlasting, even beyond. Perhaps it is not so strange to say Love is strong as death after all! 

On the higher level, it is the perfect description of  the unconditional love of the One who came and died for our sins.