There is a reason for these romantic words. The reason is love. But not just any love. The reason is marital love. In four statements our text describes marital love as the strongest, most unyielding and invincible force in human experience.
Marital love is a strong love, an enduring love, a never ending love.
This comparison may surprise you comparing marital love to death and the grave. Marital love is like this in that it also seizes upon men and women with irresistible force. Marital love, as it were, kills the person it afflicts in regards to everything and anyone else. Meadow Larks and Rainbows A story is told of a farm girl who spoke of sparrows that sang like meadow larks and of rainbows that formed in the soap bubbles when the dishwater was thrown on the road. Marital love means that the one you love has in love chosen you above all others on the earth.