I don't usually forward many devotionals but this one is
good.
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The Voice of the Lord
As a bridegroom rejoices over the bride, your God will rejoice over
you (Isaiah 62:5).
When I perform a wedding, I speak of the bride "in all her
beauty." But what if she is not so beautiful? She is
beautiful because she is the bride. To the groom, the bride is always
beautiful. In Hebrew, the word for "bride" is calah,
which is derived from the word meaning "perfect." Literally, it
means "the perfect one."
In the Scriptures, believers are called God's calah, his perfect
ones. Does this make sense? Not really. But just as it is right for me to
describe, "the bride in all her beauty," even if she is covered
with blemishes, so it is right for God to call us his calah, his
perfect one. Why? For two reasons. First of all, we are the bride of the
Perfect One. Second, we are perfect in the eyes of the Bridegroom, the
one who loves us with a perfect love. Even with all of our blemishes and
imperfections, to God in his grace, we are his perfect ones.
Learn to see all things through his eyes, with his perfect love, and it
will become so. We are his calah, his perfect ones.
Today I Will ...
...receive the love of the Bridegroom into my heart. He sees
me as his beautiful one.
JC
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John