Arise and be wed, not to romantic understanding, but to the Bridegroom of Creation. Be overjoyed, your place card present, the Hand of God will serve you, an unbelievable thing. What absolute overwhelming, unmitigated splendor will be shared that wonderful day.  I don’t think we will care if it is a day or a night or if there are in fact days and nights in the presence of Heaven’s Host. Glorified to be in Him, with Him for a time to which I currently have no imagination, Eternity. We are the Bride of Christ, the Church, soon to be wed and fed, By the Deserving One, to whom we owe all, yet we will be given more.

What then does this current predicament measure in its 80 odd years of disdain, loneliness, poverty, pain or illness? Not that it ought be slighted or diminished, but to place things in perspective, How long is Eternity in a glorified body again? Yes, this world has its beauties and its ugly, wicked wounded stations. It glorifies violence, illness, wealth beyond measure, power, lasciviousness and command over the vulnerable. But that is still this world, soon to be remade in the likeness of God. Are we that laser focused that we cannot see beyond these decades lacking treasure or facing overwhelming calamity or even death at the hands of wicked men, that we cannot see into the Beyond that Approaches.  Come now, take a moment to breathe and believe in things not yet seen.

We are here for you now, God is here to respond to prayers now, but some prayers will not be answered, by nature, until we are wed and returned to the planet. Do you have the understanding that if you’ve prayed for the wicked to be removed that will not be done until Christ returns, so you have asked and it will be answered at a time to which you should be understanding. If you have asked for health and your trial in this life is a body that performs inadequately for this life, then hold onto hope that on that precious day it will be exchanged with a glorified form that will be perfect in conceptions, performance and longevity. Again your prayers have been heard but shall not be answered until appropriate timing, God’s Timing. But isn’t it left us to gain that understanding and if we are going to have faith, hope and trust in a God who never lies then we must begin to hold onto the “Eternal” answers to an infinite life.

Father give us hope and patience to await your Perfect Will for our lives.  If I must suffer let me remember that it all has purpose and I am never doing alone.  Perhaps this trial will prepare me for the work I have yet to do here or the joy I will have in your Kingdom. Thank you for it all, May I learn to bring Your Hope to the wounded, expectant hearts of men who may have not yet found that Hope upon which we stand.  In Jesus’ Name.