Are you ready for the Bridegroom?

Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready


(LITV) Let us rejoice and let us exult, and we will give glory to Him, because the marriage of the Lamb came, and His wife prepared herself.


Made HERSELF ready.
Prepared HERSELF.


Regardless of what ANYONE says- the part we play in our salvation matters.


This thought may instantly have many up in arms as they cry out- we can't save ourselves! And I agree, we can't save ourselves at all whatsoever in any way.


The part we have comes into play at all only because salvation IS made available to us. Without salvation being made available to us we have NO part to play. We can't produce our own salvation.


We have the choice to accept the salvation made available to us through our Savior.


We have the choice to make ourselves ready, to prepare ourselves for the Bridegroom. We have to act. We have to prepare. We can't sit back and expect to be ready. We can't get ready one moment and believe that we are then ready forever, any more than we could prepare as a child to be married and expect all those preparations to last until we are actually of age. The child's gown would not fit the adult, the child's shoes would not fit the feet of the adult, any flowers picked would have long since dried up.


Preparations for an impending marriage whether one year away, two, ten, twenty, fifty years in the future-- take time.


As Christ's bride we have to prepare for the Bridegroom. We have to be ready to meet the Bridegroom. If you knew your marriage was going to be tomorrow you'd want to be ready for it, wouldn't you? My sister planned a nice wedding in less than 3 weeks and boy was she busy, busy, busy getting ready for that wedding. In preparing for the wedding to our Savior we need to be busy, busy, busy, don't we? We are talking about our eternal marriage.


If you were going to be married in a few weeks you can bet that you'd be thinking about that upcoming wedding night and day. We too easily lose sight of our impending marriage, letting our everyday life supersede that glorious future event. We stop preparing, we stop even thinking about being ready. We say we love our Lord but we don't act as if we do, we don't prepare or think about being prepared because we are TOO caught up in trying to NOT do anything for fear we will be trying to work towards our salvation. The Devil has us so confused that he sits back and laughs as we run in circles of his devising.


Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready


We need to be ready.


We need to constantly be thinking about our future marriage.


Are you ready for the Bridegroom?


Being ready doesn't mean YOU perfect your life according to some misguided notions of perfection. Being ready means ACCEPTING what the Lord has done for you, fully accepting what the Lord has done and choosing to LIVE for Him. Our Savior needs to be a REALITY to us. The love we have for our Savior needs to be REAL to us, a REAL love, a REAL knowledge, a REAL choice, a REAL marriage we are going to.


By His grace and mercy may we be prepared for Him, by Him, out of His love.


Amen.