Slow Dancing With Our Heavenly Bridegroom

I am not a great writer but it has been on my mind a lot here lately about Bride and Grooms and their first dance.

I adore these special moments when a Bride and Groom shares their first dance as husband and wife with all their family and friends.

It is a magical moment and the room is gushing with their love for one another.

You can see it in there eyes and body language.

When witnessing these special moments ,you can also feel the love they share fill the room.

Family and friends are smiling ,laughing and crying with joy.

It is a Magical moment indeed.

Like i mentioned above I am not a great writer but I wanted to share a more in-depth

understanding of the Bride and Groom and later on or maybe somewhere in between, I will share thoughts about our Heavenly Bridegroom (Christ) .

To do this I had to research this topic because I want to to make perfect sense when you are reading it.

Lets start with the tradition of the Bride and Grooms first dance as husband and wife.

In the days of Kings and Queens the first dance was used to open a Ball or Special Event.

This Special Occasion was led by the Guest of Honor.

This person was typically someone very high on the social ladder or someone of "Royalty".

"It was the Grand Opening!"

Last week I was sitting in my kitchen listening to my new song obsession called

"Perfect Grace" by Philippa Hanna and Ed Sheeran (Yep a re-write/cover of Ed Sheeran's song Perfect)

I tell you this song is so AMAZING.

I had listened to it over and over I bet you 50 times when all of the sudden Christ brought me to my feet and started slow dancing with me .

It was the single most best moment in my life.

To dance with Christ to this song ..I just can not put into words .

All I can say is that I highly recommend taking a moment and listen to this song and hopefully you will be moved just as I was and you will Slow Dance With Our Heavenly Bridegroom..

Nothing would please me more if My home church would play this song one Sunday morning and the church erupt in a Ball Room and the whole congregation begin slow dancing to this song with Christ Our Bridegroom ..It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it :D

Amen!

I will add a link to the this song at the end of this blog for your listening pleasure.

But first let me share with you what I found in my search in regards to The Bridegroom and the church:

In the Bible "Christ" is often refereed to as The " Bridegroom" and The church is refereed to as the "Bride"

We are are engaged to be married to Christ, for one day he will come and sweep his bride off her feet (the church is his bride) and take us to our heavenly home .

HOW AWESOME IS THAT!

Pretty awesome if I say so myself!

(following source is from http://www.startmarriageright.com/2013/10/the-significance-of-the-wedding-dance/

Marriage, according to Paul, is a dance―beautiful in its unity and mysterious in its hint of our relationship with Christ.

In his letters to early churches, Paul affirms the plan for marriage declared by God at the time of creation (Gen. 2:24) and by Jesus when explaining the sanctity of marriage (Matt. 19:5) that: “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh” (Eph. 5:31). The unity and union intended by God for marriage goes beyond any other human relationship. Indeed, the marriage relationship is so special that, in it, Paul catches a glimpse of the mystery of the union between Christ and his church. He makes this connection in Ephesians 5:25–30:

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body.”

Throughout this passage, Paul draws on the relationship between Christ and the church to explain how a husband should live sacrificially for his wife. As any experienced dance leader will attest, guiding another in fluid movement requires care, attention, and the sacrifice of personal autonomy―exactly how Christ leads the community of believers.

Similarly, the other dance partner devotes herself to following and complementing the leader’s movements, which is the same joyful privilege believers have in following Christ. When explaining why wives should submit to their husbands, Paul states in Ephesians 5:23–24:

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”

Paul continues with this theme by stating: “This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church,” (Eph. 5:32). He appears to address this mystery further in 1 Corinthians 6:16–17, where he compares the physical union between a man and a woman (“the two will become one flesh”) with the spiritual union between Christ and the believer (“but whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit”).

Of course, dance partners need to share a basic understanding about their direction. Likewise, the depth of the marriage union, as well as its similarities to the relationship between Christ and the church, explain why a Christian should should share a fundamental orientation towards Christ with his or her spouse. Paul’s specific instructions about marriage in Ephesians 5:23–24, as discussed above, assume husband and wife share a commitment to Christ and to live together in a manner that reflects Christ. A commonly quoted passage used to highlight the importance of marrying another believer is 2 Corinthians 6:14, where Paul states directly: “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.” Thus, when explaining that a widow “is free to marry anyone she wishes,” Paul notes the important limitation that “he must belong to the Lord” (1 Cor. 7:39).

God’s plan for marriage contrasts with the commonly held view in our culture that marriage is a convenience that, when it becomes inconvenient, can be abandoned. Marriage is not like a business relationship where each partner makes an investment and demands a good return. In God’s plan for marriage, we are to become “one flesh” with our spouses, experience an intimacy and commitment found in no other human relationship, and display to others the mystery of Christ’s profound love for his people. We are to dance together to the glory of God.

In conclusion

Thank you for taking time and reading my little blog I hope it was a blessing to you and that your journey in marriage is filled with many years of joy and happiness and above all that Christ Jesus is Number one in your marriage .

Thank you and God Bless you all

DJ Maria

PS: Perfect Grace :