All the decorations are up, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and it seems like world peace has finally been reached. All your guests are waiting at the church, your make-up is did, your hair is flawless and you ended up fitting the size of dress you set for yourself. Your nails are impeccable, the limo ride was fabulous and you really did feel like a queen. You're already imagining walking down the aisle, your dress flowing, seeing the love of your life with the biggest smile. All the while you calm yourself down to not start crying so you won't ruin your make-up. Your favorite flowers perfume the entire room with a fragrance to remember, so much so that it seeps through the cracks of the doors that await to be opened to let you in. Everything is perfectly perfect and what's more, you have the cutest flower girls ever. You're ready to walk down the aisle and before the doors open, you close your eyes for one last time as a single woman, breathe, open your eyes....
You notice a blotch on your dress.
It's a strike of black like someone just swung eye-liner on your dress by accident.
Can you imagine?!
Just a small imperfection on your wedding dress is completely dreadful!! It's like one of the most important days of your life right?! Well, I think so.
Would you get married in a wrinkled dress? And I mean the horribly wrinkled dress, not the cute vintage wrinkles that we wear now-a-days. What if you had more than one blotch on your white dress? It stands out doesn't it? It wouldn't be right to just patch it up with a piece of white cloth... it's just not part of the dress.
"...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 1:25-27 (emphasis added)
I try to imagine what type of guy would want his bride to have a torn dress on her wedding day. And not just for her to look beautiful but for her to look beautiful for him. And I know that guys like to say, "You look beautiful no matter what." But we're talking about the wedding day here. It's amazing for the bride-to-be to dress up to look beautiful but it's not like she's marrying herself. She's marrying the guy! It's for him! She loves him! Who wouldn't want to look flawless for the one you love?
Jesus wants an unblemished church. No wrinkles, no blotches, no eye-liner on it, no tears, no patches. He wants flawless. But here's the best part: He's already gotten you the dress, and you fit in it perfectly. He had it custom made and you look radiant in it.
That's the way it is now actually, He paid your dress with His blood. He actually died for you to look beautiful. Just for Him.
"'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.'" Rev 19:7-8
He loved you long before you loved Him
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ReplyDeleteWow, I looove this! What a beautiful picture of Jesus' love for us! Your comparison with the wedding dress is so neat because I'd never thought about it that way before and it's amazing! :D Thanks so much for sharing, Katy. :)
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