When we consider God's greatness and the Saints' frailty, we join with the Psalmist in crying out, "what is man, that Thou art mindful of him!"
One of the brothers mentioned a great man who was sorely vexed by a wife who was far beneath him in intellect and interests. It was said that she almost drove him to madness.
Imagine the condescension of Christ in taking the Church as His bride! For He is so high and holy, perfect, all-knowing and powerful, and the Saints so frail, so broken, so imperfect, so lowly.
Yet our Lord Jesus is never estranged from His people! He is never alienated, or put out with us, or contemptuous of us, or short with us, or bitter against us, or wonders whether He ought to leave us.
No! Christ is so tender-hearted, so concerned with our eternal salvation, so loving with our faults, so solicitous to our needs.
More than that: the Scriptures teach us that Christ has given everything to redeem His church, even His very body and life! And He intends to perfect us and beautify us so that we have no spot or wrinkle "or any such thing."
Old rascally Jacob loved the beautiful Rachel, and resented the homely Leah. But praise God, our Lord Jesus has chosen a Leah in His church!
Ought not the King of Glory to have a trophy bride? The Scriptures tell us that the Lord Jesus does have a trophy bride - a trophy to His grace and work of Redemption by His blood!
Hard as it is to imagine, the Scriptures tell us the Church will be presented as a most beautiful, complete, and perfect bride one day at the great Marriage Feast in Glory.
The Saints will be arrayed in raiment fine and white and glorious, the Righteousness of Christ. |
