July 20, 2011
My Bride is Indifferent to Me
Recently, the Lord told
me to study the Bride. I was reading a scripture from Jeremiah and I was two
lines into it when He began giving me the message that followed, which He added
to over the days that followed.
Jeremiah
33:11: The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom,
and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD
of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them
that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will
cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Can the bride think of anything but her groom?
Yet you think of many things that do not include Me, saith the Lord.
Where are My devoted ones, My set-apart ones
who hunger for My presence? (I felt deep sadness and grief) Where are those who
long after and watch for My return?
Where is the worship due My holy name? Where
are My worshipers? Why do they sing songs of praise to the world and not to Me?
(terrible grief in His voice)
Why, after all I do for you, do you chase
after other gods, other lovers? Why is it you will bow to the opinions and
desires of those around you and not bow before Me?
Am I not worthy of your praise? Your worship?
Your devotion? Is there not honor due My holy name?
As I began to pray about what He was saying, the
Lord showed me a vision of a stain covered, filthy bride. She was trashy
looking, not beautiful and virtuous looking like you expect a bride to be. She
would stop along the way to wherever she was going, distracted by the least
little thing, and laugh loudly at it. Jesus passed by her and she didn't even
notice the grief stricken look on His face. It was as if she didn't even see
Him.
You see the dirty, stained condition of My
bride. She is stained with the filth of the world around her. I desire for My
bride to come aside with Me, but she tarries in the world instead. (I sensed
the Lord had some anger at the bride's unfaithfulness)
My bride is indifferent to Me.
In soon times to come, she shall realize the
gravity of the err of her ways. She will seek Me and cry out for Me in her
distress - then she will let Me wash her clean in the water of My holy word.
Only then will she truly see her great need of
Me. For now she is content with her lover the world, but then she shall long
for Me, she shall long for My presence. She will long to feel the security of
My love and she will truly seek Me then.
How I long for you, My bride! How I long to
hold you near Me, safe from all that is coming, but you would not.
Those who seek Me early shall find Me. Those
who wait shall know great distress, for many shall perish in a short amount of
time.
When there is nothing left for her to cling to
but My Word, then will she enter in with Me. My bride abides in the world, not
in Me, where I desire she would be found. In Me she will find safety. In Me she
will find all her needs met in My endless supply. In Me she can take refuge,
but her eyes are on another, on the world, and she is polluted with gazing at
evil and corruption. (I thought of how gazing at worldly television programs
and movies and news reports does this to us - it fills our minds with murder
and corruption and keeps our mind off of Him and His word)
Come out of the world, My beloved. Run to Me
and be safe in My arms! Run to Me where I can protect you from what is coming.
My bride must ready herself for My return. She
must wash herself clean in My holy word. She must turn away from the ways of
this world and cling to Me.
NOTE: I asked the Lord why He said
at first He would wash the bride and then He said she must wash herself and He
showed me it is Him washing her through His word either way. Some of the bride
will submit now and begin to clean herself up through the water of His word.
Some will come to Him later in desperation and be cleansed as He leads them
into His word and washes them. Either way, it is His power and His word that
does the washing. We do the submitting - we submit by being willing to change
and be changed by the truth of His word.
Prov. 8:17: I love them that love me; and those
that seek me early shall find me.
Jeremiah 3:1: They say, If a man put away his wife,
and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again?
shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with
many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 29:13: And ye shall seek me, and find me,
when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 33:11: The voice of joy, and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of
them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his
mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise
into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the
land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Hosea 2:12-16: And I will destroy her vines and her
fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have
given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat
them. And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense
to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went
after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD. Therefore, behold, I will
allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a
door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in
the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. And it shall be at that day,
saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
