A Wedding Celebration

I don't go to weddings any longer and just think, "Aww... How sweet."  My thoughts tend to run to the the "symbolic"... Christ and His bride.  There is something so intriguing and intimate about knowing that my Savior sees the church, and even me personally, as His Bride!  It's even more beautiful that He doesn't see my wretched stains, but instead I am a new creation, pure and undefined.  Like the pastor that married my Uncle and his bride, it's a cause for celebration!

This wedding was bittersweet.  It was sweet because my Uncle was marrying his bride.  The bitter in the bittersweet was that his mom, my Grandma, passed away 15 months ago.  

She would have loved to be here, but I'm sure she is consumed with Jesus in Heaven.  And she would be proud that my Uncle had, in the last few months, given his life to The Lord.  He married a sweet Christian girl.  

A wedding is a new start, a new beginning.  I'm grateful that Christ made the ultimate new beginning possible by taking our punishment for our sins.  One day we will all have a wedding day, one far superior to any on earth.  For, in that day, we will see our Groom and King and begin eternity.