The Bride
She stood at the back of the church building waiting to join her groom at the Alter. Her white dress looked clean and beautiful at first.
As the bride drew closer to her groom a few in the audience began to see and smell something.
They noticed stains and dirty spots on the dress but when they tried to point them out to the bride’s handlers they were shushed or shunned and some ushered right out the doors.
As the bride got closer to her groom the dirt had turned to mud and the smell unbearable still most said not a word.
When a few did speak up protectors would say “no one is perfect, she’s only human, what do you expect, you can’t ask questions?”
As bride got closer to her love, the stains could no longer be ignored.
Try as they may to silence the guests by covering their eyes, ears and mouths the truth was too obvious to ignore.
The story is not over, words are in place and sentences spoken that move preparations ahead.
Some fight and claw to keep the pages from turning. To protect what is, they refuse to look for what is to come. They are afraid to look beyond what they know, what they’ve always been told and so they are idle.
The audience is breathless as it watches for the groom to pull out His pen and expose the rest of the story.
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And when she gets to the alter, she is covered in “His Blood”, and perfect.
Ran across this today Rick…..
“Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.” Yancy, What’s so Amazing about Grace