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6 Fasten me upon your heart as a seal of fire forevermore. This living,

consuming flame will seal you as a prisoner of love. My passion is
stronger than the chains of death and the grave, all-consuming as the

very flashes of fire from the burning heart of God.

7 Rivers of pain and persecution will never extinguish this flame.

Endless floods will be unable to quench this raging fire that burns

within you. Everything will be consumed. It will stop at nothing as you
yield everything to this furious fire until it won’t even seem like a

sacrifice anymore.
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s we continue into Chapter 8, the first two verses are a

passionate, heartfelt cry of love and desire that has

consumed all of her being. The Shulamite is besotted and
captivated by her Bridegroom Shepherd to the point that she is literally

experiencing divine ecstasy. Having tasted and seen how good He is,
the Shulamite now longs to display—both to the world and the

church—her passionate praise, worship, and adoration, as the true
expression of all that she is feeling within her.

Sadly, however, this is not possible because people will not understand

this level of abandonment to God. This degree of devotion stems from
her deep, ongoing intimacy with Jesus and is reserved for those who

place Him above all temporal things in their lives. Notice how she
compares her love for Him to spiced wine. Both spices and wine

undergo violent extraction processes. This is a precious and costly love

she is offering to her Beloved. He is now her primary focus in life, and

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