“I am married to you” (Jeremiah 3:14)

Christ chose His bride as a chaste virgin, long before she fell under the yoke of bondage. Full of unstoppable affection, He worked and prepared, like Jacob for Rachel, until the price of her purchase was paid, and now, having sought her by His Spirit, and brought her to know and love Him, He anticipates the glorious hour when their mutual bliss will be consummated at the marriage-supper of the Lamb.

It wont be long now (in the light of eternity), when Christ will present His betrothed, perfected and complete, for all of creation to see. Then, the forever state of His saints will be as sure and unchanging as God Himself. We’ll never get bored or anxious. We’ll be perfectly content. We’ll exist in the perfect love of the Trinity that existed before God created the cosmos.

Until God brings this to pass,  the indwelling Holy Spirit assures us we are His temple, and “one spirit with God”. The Apostle Paul used this fact as a way of shaming saints: “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For ‘the two,’ He says, ‘shall become one flesh.’  But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:15-17).

Every song ever sung, which promised everlasting love, will finally be fulfilled in the marriage of the Lamb. The love of the most wonderful husband on Earth is but a glimmer of dawn compared to the blazing furnace in the heart of Christ for us. Every marriage on Earth pre-figures the end-purpose of God: the mystical union of Christ leaving the Father and cleaving with the Church.