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A Glorious Bride for Our Glorious Bridegroom
(Overcomer Wu)

“That He might present the Church to Himself glorious, not having spots, or wrinkles, or any such things, but that she should be holy and without blemish.” (Ephesians 5:27).

We have heard and are quite aware of the signs in the world that the coming of our Beloved is indeed very soon. He is coming as a Bridegroom for a Bride. He is willing to leave His throne and Ivory Palaces to come for her because He has long waited for her with earnest expectations and great desires for her unblemished beauty. The beauty of the Bride of Christ is portrayed in the Bridal (Psalm 45) as being “all glorious within.” The glory of the Lord is mentioned many times in Scripture. One translation of the word “glory” is beauty, meaning the beauty of the Lord. Also, the Greek word for glory literally means “that which comes forth or issues out of;” therefore, the glory of God is that which issues out of God or we can say it is the very essence of God. Hence in order for us to be His Bride, whom He comes from Heaven to receive, portrayed in prophetic type and anti-type as adorned in the beauty of holiness and His glory, we need to daily receive so that we may be filled with His divine essence.

Her clothing is of wrought gold (Psalm 45). Gold in the Bible typifies the essence of God. Christ espouses to Himself a Bride who is glorious within and without. By revelation, Paul sees Christ presenting to Himself this Bride, “Glorious... not having spot or wrinkle” (Eph 5:27). Are we ready for the Bridegroom's soon advent? Are we all glorious within? Are your spiritual robes without spot or wrinkle? God abhors garments spotted by the flesh. Likewise, He wants us to abhor them! (Jude 23).

Christ is coming as a Bridegroom. He is coming for a Bride. Beloved, are you so spiritually beautiful that He will desire to return with you to His Throne, and to His Father and to His angels? “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments” (Rev 16:15).

John was granted a sneak peek into the Bride at the Lord's coming which he penned in the book of Revelations. The one thing he emphasizes is the fact she has made herself ready! (Rev 19:7). As the Church of the Firstborn (Heb 12:23), we are spoken of as a virgin separated from the world, sin, and self unto God and God alone. Paul wrote to the Christians, “I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ” (2 Cor 11:2). When a commoner, such as Diana, was selected by Prince Charles to be his bride, that made headline news for quite a few years, even after their marriage. Consider it for a moment: What a great privilege it is that we, who are the poor wretched sinners, could be called and chosen to be a part of the Bride of Christ! Let us not take this for granted and seize this great privilege bestowed upon us by preparing ourselves as a Bride adorned for her Husband, Christ Jesus our Lord!