The Invitation/ God's Quest for The Bride/ Perfected

The Journey To Brideship

November 17, 2015

… begins with being born-again but it is only the first step. Our goal, our destination must be to become the eternal companion and confidant of Jesus Christ, privy to all of His adventures that are to come in eternity.

This is nothing less than being His Bride in the spiritual and quintessential sense of the meaning of the word – Bride – which is becoming one with our espoused Lord and Master.

Discipleship, which the very meaning presumes an exclusive following of someone or something, is essential. It means that Disciples of Christ will follow Jesus Christ wherever He leads them. There can be no one, or anything else that is remotely followed.

“Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.” Isa.8:16-22

To be a disciple simply means to be a disciplined follower of that one thing or person, only. For those after the coming of the Messiah it means becoming born again, being delivered from our personal sin, being immersed in the Holy Spirit, learning to walk in the humbling Word of God and partaking of the Divine Nature; these are part and parcel of the fully enlightened life that must be experienced by a disciple. Those who are devoted to following Christ at all cost and who become recognized by the Master as His true disciple will acquire the engagement of betrothal as a bride to Christ.

Today’s disciple must do as the apostles did without hesitating or blinking. A disciple must leave everything behind in order to follow their true and only love. One cannot follow unless they are willing to leave in a spiritual way, their place, their past and everything with it. One must trust Him to create an abundant spiritual life for them, trust that He is the Resurrection and The Life.

The disciples’ reward is summed up among those final declarations of the Bible when it declares in the Book of Revelation chapter 14 that there will be ‘virgins in which there is found no guile” who will be among an exclusive group that will be allowed to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth for all eternity. This is the right and privilege of a Bride; to be with her husband.

Imparting this faith and encouraging would-be disciples to follow Christ wholeheartedly without fear is the primary intention of the pages on ‘Perfection’ of this website. Does it not make sense that Brideship privileges should be the disciples’ reward; to never be out of the Lord’s gracious presence, privy to all His innermost thoughts, plans and desires, and actions?

Therefore we contend and rightly declare this: Discipleship = Brideship

Discipleship is the only way to reach the ultimate goal of perfection, that proper union with Christ of which becoming born-again is only a start.

We hope the EOE can be of help in continuing the exciting journey of brideship to its final and intended destination …