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Jul 18, 2024 06:00am

The Groom is Waiting

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As I prepared for my wedding day, the old rhyme came to mind.

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

I had the something old, new and borrowed, but I didn’t have anything blue. My girls and I searched around and I think in the end we found something with the color blue on it at the last minute and stuck it in my bouquet.

It was time.

My groom was waiting.

The bride was finally ready.

The wedding was just ahead.

John 19:38-42
“And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.”

This morning as I was reading this passage in John, that little rhyme came back into my mind. There was something old – the custom of the spices for burial. Something new – the linens used to wrap His body. And the something borrowed – the tomb. Because we know He didn’t stay there for long.

But what about something blue?

There’s a wedding planned, did you know that? The bridegroom is ready, He has prepared a place for His bride. He’s waiting for her.

For us.

We, believers, are the bride of Christ. And He is the groom.

It’s almost time.

I can only imagine what that day will be like when Christ calls us home. The trumpet will sound and in the blink of an eye, we will be gone. Just like that. No man or woman will know the day or hour.

But I can only imagine the sky will be the bluest it’s ever been.

The groom is waiting. Are you ready?

In Christ, the old is gone, behold all things become new! This life is simply temporary, borrowed for a time and we too will rise with Christ to live forevermore.

Way beyond the blue.