“your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light for my path” psalm 119:105

From Genesis to Revelation the story of the Bride of Christ is there to be found. Even the very last prayer in all of scripture is one prayed by the Bride calling upon her Beloved to “Come”. The church knows the biblical concept of the Bride of Christ, but she is more than a doctrine, she is a person, she is who we are in our utlimate and highest identity, the most beautiful of all God’s creation, with an almost unimaginable destiny: to become “one” with Him, as in a marriage relationship.

Having doctrine alone without a “blueprint” is not enough. The Bridal Paradigm is that blueprint! A lens through which we can view all scripture and see the Eternal Purpose of God on full display. John the Baptist first saw Jesus as “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”, and that is how we must all first see Jesus, as our Saviour. But John later testifies to Jesus as not only Saviour, but also the Bridegroom John 3:29. This is the journey we must also make, to go beyond the threshold of Salvation into the depths of Betrothal.