BRIDAL ORNAMENTS

“We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver”, tells the Bridegroom in verse 11 of Chapter 1 of the Song of Songs to His bride who looks down upon her because of her defiled garments and of her blackness. Here, the Bridegroom uses the plural term “we” rather than “I”. This shows the triune God in the Person of the Bridegroom i.e. Father, Son and Holy Spirit who are involved in making the ornaments of gold with studs of silver for the bride. Gold represents your faith tested through trial (I Pet.1: 7).

In your life, at times, God the Father might not have answered your prayer and you might had to face disappointment or failure. Christ, the Son of God would have granted your prayer request on the first day itself. However, the Holy Spirit has delayed it just to test your faith in the furnace. But as you still believe in His wisdom and cling to Him, your faith becomes like a golden ornament. Silver represents the pure God’s words tested through the furnace of earth (Ps.12: 6). The words of God have to be tested in the earthen furnace i.e. your earthly life. Mere knowledge of the God’s words is not enough and you have to learn His words through your personal experience. You have to obey His commandments. The words of God tested through life become your studs of silver.

Christ manifested His glory only in the eleventh hour during the marriage of Canaa.

Our triune God Himself is making us these precious bridal ornaments during our earthly life as the day of the marriage of the Lamb is drawing nigh. We ourselves are unworthy to make them. Nor are we worthy to adorn ourselves on our own, as it is only God who adorns us. Only these bridal ornaments qualify us for the marriage.

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