Look at the Groom

This is wedding season. I have 3 wedding invitations posted on my refrigerator door and am expecting another one any day now. And so my thoughts are turning to the friendships I have with the brides and grooms and their families. I remember all of the happy and even not so happy events that brought our lives together and bound us together. I'm so honored that they want me to share in this special event in their lives.

There is a lot of planning, preparations, and (dare I say it) stress involved with the process of getting two people married. But overriding all of this is overwhelming joy.

OK, so now I’m studying all the passages about “brides” in the bible. And do you know what I found? It’s really not all about the bride.(As they say in the south, "Well, shut my mouth!") It’s all about the groom! Sorry, I know that is a shock to our cultural sensibilities.

Symbolically in God’s word His people have always been portrayed as the bride and the Godhead as the Groom. That’s why the Bible puts more emphasis on the “Groom.”

I remembered a line from the movie “27 Dresses.” Yes, it’s a chick-flick. The main character, Jane, says, “You know how the bride makes her entrance and everybody turns to look at her? That’s when I look at the groom. Cause his face says it all you know. The pure love there.” The writers probably didn’t realize it but that is what the Bride of Christ, His church, our, response is and will be. We look at our God spiritually but finally face to face at His return and see…pure love.

Isaiah 62:5 for just as a young man marries a maiden, your sons will marry you; and just as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride; so your God will rejoice over you.

So while we turn and look at the bride as she comes down the aisle, remember where the bride is looking. She is looking at the groom. She is looking for the pure love in his eyes.

Our world can get pretty crowded and distracting.

But let’s not lose our focus.

Let’s keep our spiritual eyes on Jesus.

If we look to Him we will see His pure love for us.

We will see that He is rejoicing over us.

Keep looking at the groom.