The Bride awaits her Groom

What a lovely and spotless bride Jesus is creating! We often look around and see the mud and grime of the world and despair. For those of us who are older, we remember innocent days when children played outside unsupervised, roamed the streets with sticks and balls and bats, safe and happy. We remember when crime was lower and people were nicer. Today is it pretty ugly out there, and that of course is because of sin. But...the Bride of Jesus is shining, spotless, and beautiful! Do not forget that! Wearing garments white as snow, standing by the crystal sea, singing praises to Jesus! His acceptance of all the wrath of God on our behalf made possible our entrance into heaven. Our ugly and putrid sins were forgiven through His sacrificial act.

This is the long betrothal period, when the bride is separated from her groom. The bride are all those people past, present and future in the Age of Grace who have believed on the atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, and His resurrection. We are anxious, waiting. We are making preparations such as remaining faithful. We are looking forward to the wedding day when everything will be perfect and we will be ready! (Revelation 19:7)

All brides on her wedding day are beautiful. She is radiant, and glowing and smiling and happy. Her white garment is spotless and adorns and wraps her gracefully. All the believers are installed in New Jerusalem, the holy city, which takes on the characteristics of the bride herself, because we who are His bride are in it. (Revelation 21:2).

"I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God."

We are finally united with our Groom!

The world is ugly and putrid and dripping with evil and poison and sin. But that is not us, thanks to Jesus our Christ. We are not of the world. Believers are spotless and beautiful in Christ's eyes. "...Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless." (Ephesians 25b-27)

Stand up, you believers, and make ready for the Groom. You are so pure and lovely in His eyes. We who eagerly await Him are also eagerly awaited BY Him!

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  1. Thanks Elizabeth for this encouraging text. I am waiting every day for my Lord and Savior to return any time now and it fills my heart with such a joy and hope. Usually before an earthly wedding, the dress is fitted to the bride´s body to make her look perfect. Not so with our master tailor who has only one robe for our wedding garment, his righteousness which he gives us at our new birth. Isaiah 61:10 and Revelation 19:6-8. Some of us have a little too much roundness in some places and so he trims us down and some of us need to have alittle more weight on our spiritual bones and he strengthens us. He is the Lion of Judah and some of his timid sheep he transforms into lions by the power of his Spirit and being the perfect lamb of God, he transforms some of us who would be lions into meek and gentle sheep by the same power. This is the beauty of Salvation, one dress fits all perfectly, covering our personal imperfections so nobody can compare against another and it´s the free gift of God. What a great God we have and we serve. Have a blessed day of thanksgiving and rejoicing.

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