JESUS’ LOVE FOR HIS BRIDE {Song of Songs 4:9} “You have ravished my heart, My sister, My SPOUSE; You have ravished my heart with one look of your eyes, with one link of your necklace”. Jesus is in LOVE with the CHURCH like a man is in love with his wife. Jesus’ HEART is captured by the TRUE CHURCH; she is His TREASURE; she holds Him hostage with one glance of WHAT she CAN be. Jesus DESIRES nothing more than to be JOINED with the Church in such an INTIMATE way that the result is the production of NEW LIFE within the world. “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and GAVE HIMSELF for it” {Eph. 5:25}. To WHAT EXTENT He loves the church? He loves us so much that He GAVE HIMSELF UP for us. He LAID DOWN His VERY LIFE to redeem us. And He is CONTINUALLY at work to CLEANSE and PREPARE us for ETERNITY. We AREN’T perfect. NO CHURCH is PERFECT. But that DOESN’T CHANGE His love for us. He is working in our lives – (Eph. 5:26) to make us HOLY, CLEANSING us by the washing with water through the WORD, so that one day – {Eph. 5:27} He can present us a RADIANT CHURCH, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but HOLY and BLAMELESS. The SACRIFICES Jesus makes are for the BENEFITS of the church. His LOVE for His church is NOT FICKLE. It is COMMITTED. It is UNCHANGING. He INTERCEDES on our behalf CONSTANTLY before the Father. MoRe BeLoW . . .
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:55:33 +0000