Outside Reading Bridegroom

Outside Reading

Isaiah 61:10

“I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”

As I have been reading scripture outside of class, I have been learning about the bridegroom and

his bride. The bridegroom is Jesus and the bride is the church. As you can see from the verse

above, Jesus will be decked in garland and the church will be adorned in jewels. Jesus loves his

bride, has waited for his bride, has fasted for his bride (wine), has longed for his bride and has

prepared himself. The bride has been preparing herself. She has been maturing and giving God the

glory while waiting until the bridegroom feast. The bridegroom feast will occur when Jesus and

his people dwell together again. We see this through Revelation 19: 7-10, which says,

                “Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

This passage excites me. This passage reminds me that God is a romantic. He has been for all

times. The church will be clothed in bright and pure linen. We should rejoice in the waiting of our

King. We should be preparing ourselves to be the queen.