A recurring theme in my journey with God lately has been His love for me as His bride. I have a lot of friends getting married in the next year or so (about 28 couples are now engaged!) and I have found myself becoming jealous that they are all planning their dream weddings and counting down the days to moment when they walk down the aisle and join their life with the man of their dreams. I am really far from that point of my life, but God's been showing me that I am always a bride. I am a bride today, and I have the biggest, best, most extravagant wedding to look forward to ever! I have the best wedding dress to wear ever! I can have that breathless anticipation today of the moment when I will see my groom face-to-face finally and He walks me down the aisle of heaven and places me before His Father. Someday Jesus is going to return and He is going to place on me His righteousness and holiness. And I will be able to stand before God and become one with Jesus, because I am hidden in Him already. It's so amazing because He extends this crazy, head-over-heels love to everyone. He pursues the ones He loves and He will not rest until His arms around us and we are no longer fighting to leave the safety of His embrace.
Maybe it's easier for girls to anticipate this sort of love than it is for guys, but I think it is something that more guys need to embrace. Men do not always have to be the conquerors, the chasers, the fixers. Jesus wants men, too, in all their manliness and need for conquest, adventure, usefulness, and everything else.
A song that moves me to tears lately is "More Than Ashes" by Tim Reimherr. He sings about this sort of love that Jesus has for us and who we are to Jesus. We are His rose, His lily, the one who can capture His heart with one glance from our eyes. Go take a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHt7wdPGOTc
"I’m more than what these ashes say
They will fade away when He comes for me
By grace, through faith in Christ I’m saved
I am not the same when He looks at me
I am the rose, the joy for which You died
And this I know, I move You with delight
And when my heart condemns on every side
I take refuge in the truth: I am the rose to You
My life is more than meets the eye
I’m hidden now in Christ and I’m one with Him
My love is real before His eyes
He’s ravished by the sight of one glance from me
I am the rose, I am the lily
I am Yours, I’m Your beauty
There’s gonna be a wedding,
It’s the reason that I’m living, to marry the Lamb
I’m more than what these ashes say
‘Cause they will fade away when He comes for me
My love is real before His eyes
He’s ravished by the sight of one glance from me"
-Elisa.
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