“You Are All Fair, My Love, and There Is No Spot in You.”

“You Are All Fair, My Love, and There Is No Spot in You.”

Who has believed this? Who has really understood such a statement and has taken it to heart? If this were the case, this statement by the Bridegroom would have had a tremendously faith-strengthening and comforting effect.

The matter has only one true explanation: Christ has seen her wholeheartedness and her noble longing and has found them to be fair and without spot.

Next, it is entirely in His power—because of her wholeheartedness and genuinely noble longing to become like Him—to fill this longing to be transformed and changed during her time of grace so that her life is fair and without spot in reality, in all ways and all areas!!!

What a heavenly calling that is! What a salvation! What growth and development! What a result!

During the engagement time, the Bridegroom can express His sentiment the way He does in Song of Solomon 4:7 while there was still a fair amount lacking in her salvation and education. How could He rightfully say something like that? We can find an excellent answer to this in Romans 4:17: “And calls those things which do not exist as though they did . . . .”

We can ask if this can be correct, whether it is not an untruth. Indeed, in every other case this would be incorrect, but not in this case simply because it is in His power to accomplish it! Hallelujah!

Who of us would then not fall in love with Him???

“Therefore, beloved . . . be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless . . . .” 2 Pet. 3:14. “How you must strive for holy conduct and godliness.”1 V. 11. People do not strive for something they have already attained, or for something they do not love, or for something they do not believe they will be able to reach! Definitely not!

However, precisely because I acknowledge that I have not obtained perfection in deed and truth, and precisely because I love to obtain it, and precisely because I believe God’s Word, and believe that I will obtain it: it is precisely these three facts that make me strive for it and constrain me to be diligent, to pursue it, and to make the utmost effort to obtain it.

And this is also the exact reason the Bridegroom lets it succeed, that He creates it. Hallelujah!