The Bride
So, I made this blog mostly because I love to write, but also because I find myself discovering new and amazing truths about life and God that I want to shout from the mountaintops, but I lack a mountaintop from which to shout from. I guess you could say I've found my mountaintop. Not to say that everything on here will be shouting. Probably just the oposite. It'll probably be a little like this...just me writing whatever comes into my head just to get it out and if you feel like listening in, be my guest. It could be interesting....maybe...
From what I've noticed, a lot of people make blogs during a high point in their life or during a time when they have a ton of stuff to tell about. I don't really feel like that observation applies to me. I'm actually at what some people call a low point in my life...I think... You see, whenever I get into one of these "low points" where I don't feel like I'm close to my God, nothing seems very clear at all. And I usually just go through my days in a bit of a haze. It's annoying to feel so blind after seeing so clearly.
The title of this blog is Beloved because it is probably my all time favorite description that God has for us. He calls us, His church, His "bride". His beautiful and stunning bride that he saved from her prostituting lifestyle of sin to take us as His own. What a beautiful love story! I think what I love so much about this love story between us and our God is that it contains only the kind of redemption and healing and incredible LOVE that only God himself could supply. He took what was absolutely desolate on the side of the road, and made it into a bride worthy of himself! Wow.
Have you seen that youtube video called "Why I hate religion, but love Jesus"? If not, I highly recomend. Now, I know this guys has gotten a lot of criticism about this video and there may be some doctrinal errors when his words aren't considered the way he meant them to be (I'm not sure, I'm just an 18 year old girl with an opinion), but the message and heart behind it is exactly the message and heart behind this blog. The message that the church of our Lord and Jesus Christ, has forgotten its first love, and has gone after idols and false religion. It's a terrible tragedy that, even after all that Christ has done for us, we have chosen to return to the street corner that we came from and have refused to live in the love and freedom that our amazing bridegroom has wished for us. A terrible, heartwrenching tragedy.
So Beloved of Christ, for that is your name if you have chosen Jesus as your Lord, let us not forget from where we have come, and what gift we have been given. The gift of pure and incredibly undeserved Love. Because, while we were still prostitutes in search of another lying lover, Christ, our lover and bridegroom, paid the debt you owned to your captors with his very own life. When those who wished to destroy and ravage your soul came for you, He lifted you up and placed Himself between you and your murderers, and he took the pain and death and ravage upon Himself. Oh, dear Beloved of Christ, what a precious payment was paid for your life! What a precious, beautiful payment!
"You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first."
Revelation 2:3-5
Live in the freedom you have been given and remember Him who has made you free!
From what I've noticed, a lot of people make blogs during a high point in their life or during a time when they have a ton of stuff to tell about. I don't really feel like that observation applies to me. I'm actually at what some people call a low point in my life...I think... You see, whenever I get into one of these "low points" where I don't feel like I'm close to my God, nothing seems very clear at all. And I usually just go through my days in a bit of a haze. It's annoying to feel so blind after seeing so clearly.
The title of this blog is Beloved because it is probably my all time favorite description that God has for us. He calls us, His church, His "bride". His beautiful and stunning bride that he saved from her prostituting lifestyle of sin to take us as His own. What a beautiful love story! I think what I love so much about this love story between us and our God is that it contains only the kind of redemption and healing and incredible LOVE that only God himself could supply. He took what was absolutely desolate on the side of the road, and made it into a bride worthy of himself! Wow.
Have you seen that youtube video called "Why I hate religion, but love Jesus"? If not, I highly recomend. Now, I know this guys has gotten a lot of criticism about this video and there may be some doctrinal errors when his words aren't considered the way he meant them to be (I'm not sure, I'm just an 18 year old girl with an opinion), but the message and heart behind it is exactly the message and heart behind this blog. The message that the church of our Lord and Jesus Christ, has forgotten its first love, and has gone after idols and false religion. It's a terrible tragedy that, even after all that Christ has done for us, we have chosen to return to the street corner that we came from and have refused to live in the love and freedom that our amazing bridegroom has wished for us. A terrible, heartwrenching tragedy.
So Beloved of Christ, for that is your name if you have chosen Jesus as your Lord, let us not forget from where we have come, and what gift we have been given. The gift of pure and incredibly undeserved Love. Because, while we were still prostitutes in search of another lying lover, Christ, our lover and bridegroom, paid the debt you owned to your captors with his very own life. When those who wished to destroy and ravage your soul came for you, He lifted you up and placed Himself between you and your murderers, and he took the pain and death and ravage upon Himself. Oh, dear Beloved of Christ, what a precious payment was paid for your life! What a precious, beautiful payment!
"You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first."
Revelation 2:3-5
Live in the freedom you have been given and remember Him who has made you free!
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