Beautified for Himself

The grace of God manifest that is in the work of the Spirit and the Word has one ultimate goal. It is to beautify an espoused Bride for the Bridegroom Himself. He did not save us just to keep us out of eternal death. He saved us for Himself to have a Family and out of the family a Bride for the golden city. The FatherÂ’s gift of His Son cannot be reduced to fire insurance.

The First Adam fell into transgression and marred the human family with darkness. The beautiful garden was vacated and ultimately destroyed. But, God had a plan and the sacrifice of the first animal by the Father Himself pointed to a cross on a hill near Jerusalem. The death of God’s Son, His only Begotten Son, was the price the Father paid for this beauty. That death is fully sufficient to break the yoke of sin and set you free. His grace will fill you with His “righteousness unto Holiness.”

Anyone that promotes a sinning religion is an enemy of His grace. Indeed we might sin, but to do so fills the purified soul with horror and there is immediate confession. The purity of the espoused Bride of Christ causes that saint to fall quickly at the feet of the cross when the least offence is discovered. Such humility brings great grace to purify that soul to a higher level of His holiness.

The Song of Solomon is a love story of the Bridegroom and His Bride. Its literacy value surpasses all of the great writers put together. It reveals His love for His saints and His passion for our beauty.

He declares of that Holy Bride, “Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men” (Song of Solomon 4:1-4). Such language is so high–far above our panting heart.

Jesus Christ ascended back to His Father leaving a promise of preparing a Bridal city full of mansions. Paul saw it but could not tell it. John saw and was commanded to tell. Paul must have seen the unfinished version, but John saw it completed. Its beauty is so rare and majestic that John had to be lost in spiritual ecstasy just to describe it. Golden streets; Jasper walls, garnishings of ever precious stone, and carved gates from solid pearls is but the structure surrounding the beauty within.

Its twenty seven million square miles of glittering beauty will lighten the New Heaven and New earth throughout every corner. The beauty of this city is nothing but a reflection of the Father; the Bridegroom; and His Bride, the chosen saints.

There is no power in death to beautify the Bride so her beauty must be the work of grace on this side of eternity. To surmise that one can be different in death than in our present life is deception. Today—right now—the Holy Spirit and Christ’s awesome Blood and Word is busy preparing your beauty for that city. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23).