Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for Your Word teaching me that diligence and faithfulness leads to success and that being hasty, impulsive, reckless and rash leads to failure. I choose to slow down and lay my decisions before You today. I ask for Your guidance in my plans. Lead my steps, Father. Direct me to accomplish Your purpose that You have placed within me. Help me seek to pray diligently and faithfully. In Jesus’ name,
First foremost, having pronounced His Church positively full of beauty, our Lord confirms His praise by a precious negative: “There is no flaw in you.” As if the thought occurred to the Bridegroom that the complaining world would insinuate that He had only highlighted her good parts and had purposely not mentioned those features that were deformed or defiled, in summary – He declares her universally and entirely beautiful and utterly devoid of flaws.
A spot can easily be removed, and is the very least thing that can disfigure beauty, but even from this little blemish the believer is delivered in his Lord’s sight. If He had said there is no hideous scar, no horrible deformity, no deadly ulcer, we might even then have marveled; but when He testifies that she is free from the slightest flaw, all these other forms of defilement are included, and the depth of wonder is increased.
If He had simply promised to remove all flaws later on, we would still have eternal reason for joy; but when He speaks of it as already done, it fills us with a deep sense of satisfaction and delight. My soul, here is spiritual food for you; digest it properly, and be satisfied with the royal provision.
Christ Jesus has no quarrel with His spouse. She often wanders from Him and grieves His Holy Spirit, but He does not allow her faults to affect His love.
He sometimes rebukes, but it is always in a tender manner, with the kindest of intentions: It is “my love” even then. There is no remembrance of our follies. He does not cherish ill thoughts of us, but He pardons and loves equally after the offense as before it.
If Jesus were as mindful of injuries as we are, how could He commune with us? Too often a believer will put himself out of humor with the Lord for some slight turn in providence, but our precious Husband knows our silly hearts too well to take any offense at our ill manners.
Dear Heavenly Father, I confess that it is so easy to judge others around me. Help me not to judge or condemn, but instead to forgive and bless them. Please give me a forgiving heart through the transforming power of Your forgiveness. Grant me a giving heart with limitless generosity and boundless kindness. Teach me to live according to Your Word. Thank You for allowing me to live in Your grace. Help me extend that grace to other people as well. In Jesus’ name,
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