Seize the Moment – Day 1358
The Wedding Day!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, December 5.
The wedding day is a significant event in any person’s life. Regardless of the logistical details of the events surrounding the wedding ceremony, a couple must never lose sight of the fact that their most important investments of time and energy must go into preparing themselves for their life together.
Solomon’s wedding day was approaching quickly, and the desire to be with one another was growing in intensity. The Shulammite was experiencing the natural insecurities that happen to a person right before their wedding day, so she went searching for her beloved, yearning to make him her own (1-4). This was a precarious moment, where patience and self-control were warranted. As a lady in waiting, she cried out in Song of Solomon 3:5, “I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, that you will not arouse or awaken my love until she pleases” (cf. 2:7). She knew that the integrity of her vow, which would be consummated on their wedding night, must be proven by her character leading up to it. She desired to present herself to her husband as a “holy and blameless” bride, just as we desire to do the same for our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:25-27).
The wedding day finally arrived with the procession of Solomon in all his grandeur as the king (6-11). This was the moment she had yearned for, and she was rewarded by her beloved’s “gladness of heart” on their wedding day (11). We, too, yearn for when we will be presented to the King “as a bride adorned for her husband” (Revelation 19:7-8; 21:2). May you be found holy and blameless on the day of Christ Jesus.
Seize the moment and trust God for His gift of love – “And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 John 3:3).
God bless you!
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