The Inattentive Bride

As the church, we are the Bride of Christ. Are we acting like a bride typically acts? Are we consumed by the groom and our desire to be with him?

My son is getting married in two weeks and the bride to be is very attentive to the groom. She has been separated from him for the past several months by almost a thousand miles. But she is attentive and desires to know what he is doing and what he needs. Through out the day her thoughts are about the groom and how she can please him. They are both anticipating the day when they can be together without restraint. She tries to keep in touch and her heart breaks when they cannot connect in a meaningful way. She is not distracted by other guys and or by interests of any kind that don’t involve the groom. There is not a day that goes by without her attention being centered on the groom.

Ephesians 5:31-32 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Isa. 54:5, “For your Maker is your husband— the Lord Almighty is his name...”
Rev. 19:7-9, “Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear..." Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!'”

Let us keep ourselves pure anticipating the day we will be together with our Lord and Savior. Let our thoughts and heart be with HIM even now as we prepare for that great day.