My Mason Jar Sconces & We Are His Bride!
Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 2021-07-22

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Morning and Evening 

https://www.blueletterbible.org/devotionals/me/view.cfm?Time=am 

July 22nd — Morning Reading 

"I am married unto you." — Jeremiah 3:14 

Christ Jesus is joined unto His people in marriage-union.  

In love He received enthusiastically His Church as an unwed virgin, long before she fell under the yoke of bondage.  

Full of burning affection He toiled, like Jacob for Rachel, until the whole of her purchase-money had been paid, and now, having sought her by His Spirit, and brought her to know and love Him, He awaits the glorious hour when their mutual bliss shall be consummated at the marriage-supper of the Lamb.  

Not yet has the glorious Bridegroom presented His engagement, perfected and complete, before the Majesty of heaven.  

Not yet has she entered upon the enjoyment of her dignities as His wife and queen: she is still a wanderer in a world of woe, a dweller in the tents of Kedar; but she is even now the bride, the spouse of Jesus, dear to His heart, precious in His sight, written on His hands, and united with His person.  

On earth to her, He exercises all the affectionate offices of Husband. He makes rich provision for her wants, pays all her debts, allows her to assume His name, and to share in all His wealth, and, He never act otherwise to her.  

The word divorce He will never mention, for "He hates putting away." Death must chop off the spousal tie between the most loving earthly beings, but it cannot divide the links of this immortal (never dying) marriage.  

In heaven they marry not but are as the angels of God; but there is this one marvelous exception to the rule, for in Heaven Christ and His Church shall celebrate their joyous wedding.  

This natural liking is more lasting, and it is nearer than earthly wedlock.  

Let the husband’s love be so pure and passionate, for it is but a faint picture of the flame which burns in the heart of Jesus.  

Passing all human union is that mystical cleaving unto the Church, for which Christ left His Father, and became one flesh with her. 

Edited for easy reading by Tammy Nichols on 7/22/21.