Revelation 19:7:
…."His bride has made herself ready…."
We are called as a Bride, a companion for all eternity. But our preparation and qualification for that is in this life, for He (Christ) will
only return for His Bride when she has been matured (made ready) to the point
of being without blemish ("spot or wrinkle" - Ephesians 5:25-27 and
Revelation 19:7 & 21:2 & 9). In this
life we are being subjected by God our master potter (Jeremiah 18:2-4)
to testing and training to bring us to a place of unity with Christ Jesus. We have a
responsibility here in the fullness of time that is our life to allow it to become His life. We are
to prepare ourselves. Not in
our own strength, it requires His light (word), life (power), and His love. Our
responsibility is to allow Him
to work in our lives; to yield to Him, to aggressively
seek and desire Him
and that He might work in us. Being His Bride is not a "gift", nor a set of blessings bestowed, it
is relationship! It is the
most beautiful and complete union imaginable. Relationship, not religion!
To be a Christian is not a matter of being "religious", but being in a
personal relationship with
God the Father through Christ Jesus the Son. Being His Bride is the ultimate
culmination of our relationship with Him...beloved
of Him...sought out by
Him...perfected by Him and
established with Him. To be a Bride means total abandonment of one's
entire self, will, goals, name and nature unto another (the Bridegroom). It
