Like a Bride
This morning I woke up with the refrain of a contemporary Christian song running through my mind. The song is by Kristian Stanfill and is called “Even So, Come.” The part that I kept hearing over and over in my mind was this: “ Like a bride waiting for her groom / We'll be a Church ready for You / Every heart longing for our King / We sing / Even so come / Lord Jesus, come.” As I was getting ready for school today, I started humming this song and thinking about it intently. How much like a bride are we as the Church? Are we really intent on looking for Christ to come? Are we really longing for our King—or do we even recognize Him as being King? Are we playing the game of church, or do we really want Him to be the center of everything we do in this life? I’ve thought a lot this summer about the idea of being a bride because that is the simile the Bible presents to us over and over again. As we wait for the return of Jesus Christ for his Church—His bride—we are to be in a stat