THE BREAST-LESS BRIDE

THE BREAST-LESS BRIDE

It doesn't matter what You've done
It doesn't matter where You're coming from
Doesn't matter where You've been
Hear me tell You I forgive
You're not guilty anymore
You're not filthy anymore
I love you, mercy is Yours
You're not broken anymore
You're not captive anymore
I love you, mercy is Yours
Can You believe that this is true?
Grace abundant I am giving you
cleansing deeper than you know
all was paid for long ago
there is now
therefore no condemnation
for those who are in Jesus

{Song: Not Guilty Anymore by Aaron Keyes}

1     We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?⁹ If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will in close her with boards of cedar.{Songs of Solomon 8:8-9}

. 14Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness {Ephesians 6:14}

For the bride that keeps falling in Sin, what can be done for her? Her breast {righteousness} is not well formed and her marriage is soon. The groom loves her so much and will not allow her lack of proper breast development {righteousness} prevent their marriage. He had to do something to cover her up lest the marriage cannot hold. No man wants to marry a breast-less woman. 

Thankfully our groom has got what we lacked. We were too young to have developed breast. We were totally void of righteousness yet He was still interested in reconciling us to himself in marriage. He couldn’t wait any longer. He had waited for many years yet we were stunted in growth regarding our righteousness. Even if He waited a million years longer, man would still not have been able to grow righteousness by himself. We got a mutated gene from Adam that affected our breast {righteousness} formation. God will have to intervene. He had to step in to help us. He acted as the surgeon to carry out a breast transplant procedure. We are the recipients and Christ is the Donor. Yes! Our groom had to give us His righteousness by becoming Sin for us so that we might become his righteousness.

 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. {2Corinthians 5:21}

Everyone who accepts Christ Jesus as Lord and saviour goes through this transplant procedure. Now our breast is well formed. We have a righteousness that came from our very groom. He recognizes it whenever He looks at us. This righteousness is not the one that comes from the laws of Moses or religion. No! It is the very graft from God. We now host His righteousness in us.

We are set and mature for the wedding now. Whenever He beholds us, He is delighted at what He sees.

 I was a virgin, like a wall;
    now my breasts are like towers.
When my lover looks at me,
    he is delighted with what he sees. {Songs of Solomon 8:10 NLT}

Once we had no breast but now we have it in abundance

Once we were too young for the wedding but now we are mature

Once we weren't qualified for the wedding but now we are.

Thanks to God who stepped in and covered up our shortcomings. He has always covered up our mess. He loves us so much so that He would do anything to keep us from shame even if we deserved the shame. He finds pleasure in always helping us and rescuing us. Whenever we think it’s too late, our Hero steps in and salvages the situation. Look at what He did for Adam when Adam brought shame upon himself.

And the LORD God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife. {Gen 3:21]

Did you notice how He covered them up? He made clothing to cover their nakedness.

Just as God killed an innocent animal and made a covering for Adam and Eve, so Christ was sacrificed to be a covering for our sins, unrighteousness and shame. The groom is the lamb that was slain from the foundations of the world to cover our breast-less life.

When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,
    he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
    my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
    for he will bear all their sins. {Isaiah 53:11 NLT}

He had to suffer so much for us. Bruised and pieced just so that we can be qualified to be called righteous.

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.² And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

³ Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.⁴ Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.⁵ For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.{Isaiah 62:1-5}

This is the mind of God spoken through the prayer of Isaiah the prophet. God could not also hold His peace until our righteousness came forth. As soon as He gave us His righteousness, He also gave us a new name. A name that shows that we are now qualified to be called His bride.

Our groom rejoices over us and takes delight in us. He smiles whenever He thinks of us. He doesn't behold Iniquity in us but His righteousness reflects from us. Now He can rest because we are now reflecting His glory and the gentiles now see our righteousness. We have been called by a new name “Royal diadem, Hephzibah, Beulah, My Delight, and My Bride”

This is exactly what Christ did for the church. He saved us and made us righteous, a righteousness that shines brighter and brighter, a righteousness that darkness cannot comprehend, a righteousness that sin cannot diminish. An everlasting righteousness. A robust kind of righteousness. Now we have our breast well developed and He calls us His Delight, His Bride. We are fully decorated and prepared for the marriage.

21He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him {2 Corinthians 5:21}

Now we are His righteousness and it is everlasting as long as we agree to marry him. This righteousness we now have is not dependent on our works, weaknesses or strengths. It is purely his gift to us to cover us up and make us fit for the wedding. Now we can reign in life without shame or guilt. We don’t have to compare the size of our breast {righteousness} with our friends’ any more. Our groom has accepted us now with this righteousness gift.

¹⁷ For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!{Romans 5:17}

Now we have been established in righteousness and our groom rejoices over us because we are qualified for the wedding. This is abundant grace at work. We can no longer be accused. No one can condemn us because the only one who is qualified to condemn us is the same groom who is covering us up in legal justification

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.{Romans 8:1}

³³ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.³⁴ who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.{Romans 8:33-34}

This is awesome and I wish we understand this. We have been justified but why do we still condemn ourselves. We think He gets mad at us whenever we fall into sin. We simply do not understand 1John 2:1-2:

 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

He sees us as bride and as children. He understands our frame and knows we are weaker vessels yet loves us deeply and doesn’t punish us after the manner of our sins. Maybe we need to understand Psalm 102:

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
    slow to anger, abounding in love.
⁹ He will not always accuse,
    nor will he harbour his anger forever;
¹⁰ he does not treat us as our sins deserve
    or repay us according to our iniquities.
¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his love for those who fear him;
¹² as far as the east is from the west,
    so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³ As a father has compassion on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
¹⁴ for he knows how we are formed,
    he remembers that we are dust.

What a blessedness it is to be His bride, to have a relationship with Him in which sins are pardoned without punishment. This is how Paul explained it in Romans chapter 4:6-8

 ⁶ This is what David meant when he spoke of the happiness of the person whom God accepts as righteous, apart from anything that person does:

⁷ “Happy are those whose wrongs are forgiven,
    whose sins are pardoned!
⁸ Happy is the person whose sins the Lord will not keep account of!”

What a privilege it is to be this loved. Now our unrighteousness is covered with His righteousness, our weaknesses with His love. We must understand His Love and His Grace towards us. We are the rose for which He died, the bride He paid the costly price of His blood for. If He punishes us for our faults then He must have died in vain. Now we must understand how He sees us. He cannot punish himself for truly we are Him………..

  NOTES FROM CHAPTER 4

(1)                A breast-less bride is one who has no righteousness because she falls into sin over and again.

(2)                A breast-less bride has weaknesses and shortcomings and hence is prone to sin

(3)                The groom covers up her shortcomings and doesn’t punish her sins

(4)                Christ gives us a gift called righteousness in place of our unrighteousness.

(5)                Now nobody can condemn us, we are beyond accusation because we have the gift of righteousness.

(6)                God doesn’t keep account of our sins any longer. Whenever we fall into sin, we receive pardon.

(7)                We are now His Delight and Bride.

(8)                We are the rose for which He died

(9)                His love covers all our multitude of sins.

           

When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish,
    he will be satisfied.
And because of his experience,
    my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to be counted righteous,
    for he will bear all their sins. {Isaiah 53:11 NLT}