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