Will You Marry Me?Sample

Newlyweds

We’re on the last day! I sincerely hope you’ve developed a new and deeper understanding of the bride and bridegroom relationship depicted all throughout the Bible. 

I want to end our study with a look at what it’ll be like to be married to Christ. We only have a limited view of what’s to come, so we can’t fully understand it all in our human minds, but what the Bible does reveal whets our appetites for a world we can’t even begin to imagine.

We won’t be married in heaven as we are on this earth. Marriage to another person passes away in the age to come. We’re immortal like angels and will be married to Christ. He’s our one and only groom.

When we get married to Jesus, we’ll come back to the earth with Him in the “Glorious Appearing” after the great tribulation. We’ll be given full authority to reign with Him in the new heaven and new earth.

We’ll be dressed in bright and clean white linen and have power and positions of great authority. We’ll be like kings and queens ruling the new earth alongside our Savior, enjoying all that is His.

Last but not least, we’ll be beautiful. Girls, let’s not pretend that this doesn’t matter to us! Just look at the world we live in: Being young and beautiful has taken on its own form of idolatry. We’re addicted to it. Sadly, outward beauty often takes precedence over inward beauty. 

It’s important for us to always keep in mind that while the standard of beauty here on earth is perverted, we’re lovely and gorgeous to God. He created us in His own image and has uniquely gifted each of us. He loves us. He sees us. He desires us. 

Living in this fallen world where we do get older and our bodies grow more feeble, we can be confident that the spirit of God in us is growing stronger and more beautiful day by day. We’ll reach our full peak of beauty in His kingdom and we’ll be gorgeous! 

We won’t be a humble, feeble bride. We’ll be a mighty, strong, and breathtakingly beautiful glorified body—pure as snow. We’ll shine in the love of our Savior and be glorious in His presence. 

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Let’s revisit that girl we saw at the beginning of this study—the one at the wedding. 

She’s finally arrived and can’t contain her joy and passion. She’s sprinting down the aisle in all her splendor and beauty. She’s fierce and powerful, relentless in her pursuit to get to Him: Jesus. 

He’s watching in awe and bursting with pride at the sight of her. He’s a warrior who has fought for her and won. She sees him and knows that it was all worth the wait. This moment erases all her past pain, heartache, loss, and disappointment. 

That she is you! Your day and hour to be betrothed to Christ is here. 

You’ll be the girl running to Him and living in a beautiful, endless dream. All pain and loss will be gone, and the world we used to know will only be a faint memory. It won’t haunt you or hold you anymore. In Him, you are fully free. 

Jesus, our bridegroom, is down on one knee, asking you to share the cup of acceptance and be betrothed to Him forever. 

Say yes! The best is yet to come!