with this ring

So, I guess I should tell everyone. I'm officially getting married! Isn't that great! I'm so excited and I can't wait. Haha, just kidding. I did, however, attend a wedding this past weekend of one of my really close friends while I was at Baylor. I read a poem by Robert Browning. During the wedding I got to thinking about the last marriage between Jesus and His bride, the church. Me. And I couldn't help but sit and take notes during the ceremony because there was so much coursing through my mind. Here are my thoughts:

It was amazing how, all the way up to the wedding we could be joking around but when it finally started there was this hush that fell over the room. You could almost sense that God Himself was watching. He was there. It was such a holy and sacred moment, two lives becoming one. Leaving their own selves and becoming stitched together in the supernatural. Then the bride's maids enter. How beautiful. You could see the groom standing there thinking that if these girls, who have been attending to the bride and have been helping her get ready, looked this magnificent, then how awestruck would he be when his bride finally entered. I could only imagine Jesus as He waits for us, His bride, to finally enter on that eternal day. How excited He would be as He sees angels, who have been sent to minister to us, enter the room preparing the way for us to enter. What a glorious day. I was overwhelmed as I watched and thought of the final day. The day that Jesus returns from preparing a place for us to enter with Him.

One thing I know is that I'm not ready for that day to come. My make-up is all a wreck and my dress is still at the cleaners. Only by the grace of Jesus will I make it on time because He is coming whether I'm ready or not. But the greatest thing is that I don't have to wait until I enter to get to see Him. He readily makes Himself known each day I just have to choose to want to know Him.