Pure bride

Children get your hearts right,
because He is coming for a pure bride.
Children get your hearts right.

These words are not my own, but Leeland’s from their song (yes you guessed it) “Pure Bride.”  For some reason I have not been able to get them out of my head.  The past few days, the truth that God is coming for a pure bride has been impressed on my heart.  In other parts of this song, it says “What are you doing when no one else is watching,” and “The Lord is coming for His bride, make way for the Lord.”

We as the church are His bride.  And He is coming for a pure bride.  Blameless.  Whole.  Complete.

I just keep thinking, am I ready?  Am I eagerly awaiting His arrival?  Am I pure and blameless?  He yearns to bring us into completion and wholeness.  That is available to each of us.  As Romans 5:2 says, through Christ, we have “obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand.”

I want to be whole and blameless.  I want to be pure.  So that I can glorify God and speak out to a broken world.  So I can better love and serve those around me.  I am His pure bride.  We are His pure bride.