To Be...Together for Better or Worse
March 6
Hopefully you were able to watch the tribute to Billy Graham on the Fox Network Sunday night.
What a testimony of a life sold out for Jesus. Also, what a testimony to a marriage and love that stood the test of time and separation. While the photos of Graham with rulers of nations are impressive, its the ones of him with his wife Ruth that thrill my heart.
Christ, our Bridegroom, lovingly has chosen the church to be his bride! In biblical times there was a betrothal period where the bride and groom were separated until the wedding. The bride's responsibility was to be faithful to the groom until he came to get her! Think about that. Guess you had to be looking your best everyday, because you were not going to get a text that he was headed your way.
Likewise for us, we will not get advance notice that Jesus is coming back to us, so we should be found faithful to Christ until our wedding ceremony when we will be established in our eternal union with Christ!
"Husbands, love your wives, just as 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." Eh. 5:25-27
"Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear. (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God's holy people.) Then the angel said to me, 'Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb! And he added, 'These are the true words of God.'"
Revelation 19:7-9
