Men are the brides of Christ just as women are. The bride describes a position of privilege and of nearness to the heart of God. We must have a revelation of this bridal Paradigm to understand it fully. Beloved, the truth is that the Lord God, Jesus Christ, The God-Man, Loves use, He is ravished by our weak glances, even in our weakness He goes crazy for us! His enjoyment for us is not based on our achievements but on His own heart and your sincere response to Him. This isn’t something that you need to strive to achieve, but it is an awesome key that can unlock power in your life.
The Song of Solomon is a great book to show this Bridal Paradigm. I think it can be understood three main ways. First, it can be understood as married love between King Solomon and his Shulamite. Second, it could be a spiritual love song between the glorious relationship between Christ and the church. Third, it could be again a spiritual love song, but between Christ and the individual. The third way just makes me go crazy as I am reading through the book. Just thinking about it being a love song between me and Christ exhilarates me.
God is often viewed as a strict coach, that isn’t emotional until we sin then he gets angry with us. Also He is viewed as a God who is just trying to discipline us by calling us to things and then letting bad things happen to us. We never realize that his heart burns for desire for us.
It takes God to love him. We love him with the supernatural power of his own imparted love. We are used as a vessel, when we get a revelation of his love we are automatically filled with love towards him, and we hunger for him, then we get another revelation of how he loves us as our weakness, and our love for him at that moment just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and the cycle also keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The power to love is its own reward. Imagine a couple with a 2 million dollars and a 2 million dollar house. They have a daughter who gets sick and the doctor tells them it will cost them everything to help her the 2 million dollars and the house. They do it. Then one day someone comes up to them and says, “It was amazing what you did for your daughter,” and they say, “No what we did for our daughter was love.” They were despised for doing this. This example also applies to scripture if your were to give up everything for God do you think people would say something like, “Yeah I did that last week,” no they would give the reaction of you being crazy. Paul says his sacrifice for God is nothing compared to the excellency of experiencing the beauty of Jesus, Philippians 3:8. The reward for someone who is truly in love is the power to love, and by now no self recognition is sought or wanted.
Jesus desires us! Nothing is better than the revelation of the God filled with pleasure, the God who has intense desire for human beings and the God who woos us through spiritual pleasures. Paul preaches on the revelation of the Bridegroom in 2 Corinthians 11:2
“For I am jealous for you with a Godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
In this ministry indentity as friends of the bridegroom we operate differently than those Christians without this revelation. We are fearless. A Bridegroom God is a God who has indescrible desire and delight for us as human beings. Something profound happens to us in our weakness, we feel wanted, and longed. The Bridegroom God actually enjoys us and takes pleasure in us even here on earth.
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