The Bride and His Groom

Christ has called me to love like He loves the Church. How on earth am I to do that? In this very question lies the answer. I cannot, in my earthly strength, even begin to fathom what it means to love in a pure sense; to love with a perfect love that Christ offers to His bride. I am broken and undone, unable to comprehend what love is without Christ daily pouring out an extra measure of grace to cover my filthy stains. Every day I obsess with those things from which Christ has freed me. I return to my whorring on the street corner and becoming indebted to the fleshly master of sin. Daily, Christ taps into the mercy that was afforded on the cross and pays my sin debt. This is the love of the Groom toward His bride. This is the love that I am to have. Only in a daily recognition of my sin and a pleading for the view of this love will I be able to take small steps toward loving in this manner.