Imagine a cost of $150,000 for flowers at
your wedding!
Imagine getting to choose which carriage
and horses will regally transport you to a formal wedding reception given in
your honor where 600 guests will be present!
Imagine having 200 guests at a less formal
wedding reception!
Imagine having commemorative designed
china to celebrate your wedding!
But can such imaginative thoughts actually
become a reality in wedding preparations and then on into the "happily
ever after" life of married couples?
Well, when the bridegroom's name is Prince
Harry of England…..when the bridegroom's grandmother is Queen Elizabeth
II…..when the bridegroom's father is Prince Charles - the next in line to be
king of England…..
No wonder hearts flutter at thoughts of a
royal marriage! No wonder hearts beat a trifle faster when thinking of the
advantages of belonging to royalty!
However, Christians must keep things in
perspective because we DO belong to royalty though not by an earthly
birth nor by an earthly marriage.
Christians have a Heavenly spouse - Jesus
Christ - the King of kings and Lord of lords - whose reign will never end and
whose wealth, power, dominion, etc., surpasses any human imagination
(even the imagination of any royal individual).
Also, Christ's love for us is not of our
imagination. He declared and proved His love for us when He left heaven's
splendors; took the form of human flesh; and as the sacrificial Lamb, paid our
"wages of sin," which was death, by dying Himself on the cross.
And since Christians are no longer under
God's wrath because we
have been saved by grace through faith, no earthly royal personage can rival
the realities Christians have because of Christ's love and sacrifice.
Actually, the Christian's reality is
beyond any imagination because:
Our sin debt has been paid!
God is our Father!
The Holy Spirit indwells us!
Angels are ministering spirits to us!
And Christ mystically has become our
bridegroom (among other things)!
Christians also have in 1 Corinthians 2:9
a statement from God more precious than from any king or queen: "Eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him."
Then in Hebrews 11:16, Christians have
another equally precious declaration:
"But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God
is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a
city."
Talk about imagination! Christians can't
even imagine what God has prepared for those that love him! And in reality we
can't even imagine what it means when God says he won't be ashamed to be called
our God.
So, come and read some of the writings of
authors from the past. Let them explain from the Bible some of what Christ is
to every believer, learn about the marriage feast spoken of in Rev. 19:9, learn
about going out to meet the bridegroom in Matthew 25:6, etc. Then may your soul
weep over His sufferings and yet rejoice over the joy each believer is to the
heart of Jesus Christ, your Heavenly Bridegroom!
M.
Robbins
