On Being a Bride

Friday night I was a bride. Ok, so not really, but I felt the closest I’ve ever felt to being a bride. It was our mother-daughter banquet at church and the theme was “The Bride of Christ.” We had a bridal fashion show in which woman modeled dresses throughout the years. I modeled a dress from my friend Sherri’s wedding. It was such a privaledge to model the dress after she told me how much that dress and that day meant for her. I felt all the love that was brought together with her and her husband all on me Friday night.

The speaker spoke about our calls as women, how the world wants us to be tough and hard (kinda like men), but how God needs us to be feminine and gental, like woman. It is “for such a time as this” that we are here and it is through being a woman, the bride of Christ, that we are to rise to the next level and go after God’s calling. I really felt the Lord speak to my heart that night, saying, “tonight you wore a wedding dress as a representation of how I already see you. Tonight I renew my vows to you as a beginning of the next part of this season in your life. You are my bride, beautiful, lovely, and pure all dressed in white! You are already a bride in heaven and will one day be a bride on earth as well.”

The next level…to think that the Lord sees me as his beautiful bride. To think that he trusts me enough, loves me enough, and wants me enough to take me to the next level. My prayer is that as I walk through this level, he’ll see my face and continue to sing over me with love!