Here comes the ... groom?
Karen Beilharz / 12th January 2006
/ All around the world...
The other day I had a thought. If marriage is a picture of the heavenly reality of Christ one day being united with his bride, the church, then why don't our wedding services reflect that? Why is it the groom is kept waiting up the front while the bride swans down the aisle to beautiful music, all eyes fixed on her? Wouldn't it be more correct, theologically, if things were the other way 'round—if the bride was waiting up the front, decked out in her splendid finery, and everyone awaited the coming of the groom so that, at his appearing, “every eye will see him” (Rev 1:7)?