Our Daily Journey with God: May 04
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Our Daily Journey with God
May 04, 2020
the best wedding ever
The wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready [Revelation 21:1-8]
Within the last 800 or so years, a new custom has been added to the Jewish wedding ceremony. At the very end, the groom crushed a wine glass under his foot. One explanation of this is that the shattering glass symbolizes the destruction of the temple in AD 70. Young couples are encouraged to remember, as they establish their own homes, that God's home had been destroyed.
God is not homeless, however. He has just chosen a new place to live — in us, His followers. In the metaphors of Scripture, believers are both the bride of Christ and the temple in which God lives. God is fitting His people together to build a new home that will be His permanent dwelling place. At the same time, He is preparing the bride and planning a wedding that will include all of God's family from the beginning of time.
Our part is easy though sometimes painful. We cooperate with God as He is at work in us to make us more like His Son Jesus. Then some day, at the best wedding ever, our Lord will present us to Himself without spot of wrinkle. We will be holy and without blemish [EPH. 5.27] This wedding will bring an end to all this sorrow and suffering.
Finish then Thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be; let us see Thy great salvation perfectly restored in Thee.— Wesley
The return of Jesus is sure.