Our Bridegroom?
Imagine this. You have been asked to help a young man. He’s fighting tears as he sits down with you. He doesn’t know what to do. Two years earlier he met and soon fell in love with a woman who showed all the same feelings for him as he felt for her. They got engaged and then it suddenly changed. Phone calls from the girl dropped from many every day to barely one a week. Previously she couldn’t keep way from him. Now she’s happy if they see each other once a month. The hardest thing is her answer to his constant questioning: why? “Because we’re getting married and we’ll be together all the time, we don’t have to spend that much time together now.”
What would you tell him? What do you really think of the woman’s excuse? Something’s wrong isn’t it?
It seems pretty obvious that if two people are so much in love that they want to get married, they would want to be together more and more – not less and less. But think about this. Christians make up the bride of Christ and we will one day be with Jesus our heavenly Bridegroom forever and ever. So as that day approaches, should we want to be with Him more and more, or less and less?
How many of us are content to sit back because we’ve already got our “ticket to heaven?” We don’t talk with Him unless something’s really wrong. We don’t meet Him one on one in worship. We don’t see being with His people as a high priority. We’re “engaged” but you’d never think so. If a natural relationship between a girl and a guy who thought like this would be doomed to failure, why should a spiritual relationship with Jesus do any better? As the day of a marriage gets nearer, the girl should be beside herself to be with her man; so should Christians for their Bridegroom.
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