Such an important thought for the body of Christ to grab hold of!
Reblogged from Bread for the Bride, April 2012:
Recently I did a Google image search on ‘bride of Christ’. The results were interesting. With a few thought-provoking exceptions, the majority of images portrayed a Western bride dressed in long white gown and veil, with flawless fair skinned complexion and a radiant smile. Sometimes she is shown holding a sword, or depicted from the back looking searchingly towards the skies, at times surrounded by angels. But almost invariably the Bride shown in these images could have stepped straight out of a Hollywood movie.
I’m not suggesting there’s anything inherently wrong with this kind of imagery but it does seem to demonstrate a rather limited, stereotypical idea about what the Bride of Christ should look like, especially among Western Christians. Is this really how we imagine her to be in the eyes of Christ?
The Bride I’ve glimpsed differs somewhat from…
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Lillie-Put 
Oh, Pastor J this was so good! I especially liked this paragraph, “The Bride I see now wears such scars as badges of honour. She does not hide them, but neither does she exalt them. They simply are part of who she is and who she is becoming. She holds it as a deeply precious thing within her heart that she has been chosen to bear her scars as evidence of her faithful journey towards the Bridegroom, even as He also eternally wears His scars as evidence of His sacrificial love for her.” Thank you, Pastor J for sharing this with us today. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow!
It was an awesome day! Thanks Deb! I stand before him scars and all glorying in all He has done!