As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. Isaiah 62:5
Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. 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. Revelation 19:6-7
Dear Lord Jesus, like every day, this day is no different. I need the gospel… and I need the power of the gospel even to believe the gospel. For sometimes the good news seems just too good to be true. So I pray for grasping power today—power to grasp the multi-dimensional love that is ours in you… a love that surpasses knowledge but will never diminish through eternity (Ephesians 3:14-21).
Lord Jesus, you are the bridegroom who rejoices over your bride. You’re not just committed to us… you’re not just faithful to us… you’re not just a great provider, you actually love and enjoy us. You’re glad to be married to us. You have no doubts or regrets. You haven’t discovered something recently that makes you wonder what you were thinking when you chose us. You’re not bored with us. You were never just infatuated with us. You don’t look longingly at some other spouse and think, “If only…”.
If your great affection for your Bride wasn’t so chronicled in your Word, I’d never believe it was true, or even possible. Continue to free me from my unbelief and under-belief.
As I meditate on John’s auditory vision of our coming wedding Day to you, I totally get the thunderous sounds of heaven extolling the wonder of it all. Where can a greater reason for unfettered rejoicing be found? What other hope could possibly generate such unabated gladness? Come, Holy Spirit, come… and stun my heart afresh with this good and true news! Renew, refresh, restore to me, and my friends, the joy of this glorious salvation!
Jesus, I’m ready for that Day only for one reason. You died to make us yours. We wear the wedding garments of your grace—your perfect righteousness freely given to us because of your costly sacrifice for us. That is our only hope and our only boast. May your marriage to us and great love for us, profoundly alter and affect every other relationship in which you’ve placed us… every one of them. So very Amen, I pray, in your glorious name.
