“Love is as strong as death…” (Song of Songs 8:6)
Death is often seen as the final limit: it interrupts a life, silences a voice, and leaves broken hearts behind.
For many, it seems like a solution—whether to punish, take revenge, or end suffering. Yet death solves nothing.
It cuts off a life, but heals no wounds; it silences a voice, but erases neither anger, nor pain, nor the past.
The Bible never presents death as a valid human answer, because it changes nothing at the root.
The one who takes another’s life does not eliminate evil—he spreads it.
A single act of violence can destroy families, create lasting resentment, and even mark generations.
Death adds pain to pain and leaves the living without peace.
Love, on the other hand, accomplishes what death is powerless to do. Where death cuts, love reconciles; where death forces, love transforms.
A sincere forgiveness can stop a revenge that death would only prolong.
A gentle word can soften a heart that fear would have hardened. Many times, a single act of love has prevented an entire community from falling into a cycle of hatred.
That is why Jesus teaches: “Love your enemies” (Matthew 5:44)—not to excuse evil, but to prevent it from multiplying.
God protects life because it comes from Him. The command “You shall not kill” (Exodus 20:13) is not merely a moral rule, but a divine statement: life has a value that nothing can replace. Even the one who has done wrong can still be transformed, for God says, “I take no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies” (Ezekiel 18:32). If God chose death as the solution, no one would be saved.
Death closes a destiny; love opens a future. Death puts a final point; love gives a second chance. Jesus expressed it clearly: “I have come that they may have life” (John 10:10). This means that God does not seek to eliminate but to restore—not to punish by destroying, but to save by lifting up. Even when a person reaches the end, God does not choose the finish—He offers a new beginning.
This is why love is stronger than death:
death ends a life, but love changes it.
Death cuts, but love heals.
Death destroys, but love rebuilds.
What death stops outwardly, love can transform inwardly.
When we choose love instead of hatred, life instead of destruction, we enter God’s way of thinking—the way that gives a future instead of imposing an end. And this is how God’s word becomes reality: death does not have the last word, because love is greater than death.
PRAYER:
Lord, teach me to choose love instead of revenge, life instead of death, and peace instead of hatred.
Heal wounded hearts, comfort those who suffer, and make me an instrument of reconciliation.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Apostle Dr Jean-Claude SINDAYIGAYA