He loves Us Like A Bridegroom

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Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethern, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another; to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

Isaiah 62: 4-5 You shall no longer be termed Forsaken, nor shall you land any more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called Hephrizbah [My delight is in her], and your land Beulah [married]; for the Lord delights in you, and you land sahll be married. For as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall you God rejoice over you.

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1. John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.

God WINS our love, just as a groom wins the love of his beloved.

The difference between the Old Covenant and the New can be likened to a woman who was a servant of her master, and a servant who has been made a bride.

It is as if a woman had been a servant in a house, paid for her work in weekly wages, and under the law of her master, whom she had tried to please, but towards whom her service had been one of duty only. Finally, however, the master offers her his love, and lifts her up from the place of servant to be his bride and to share his fortunes. At once the whole spirit of her service is changed. She many perhaps continue to do the same things that she did before, but she does them now altogether from a different motive. The old sense of duty is lost in the new sense of love. The cold word "master" has been transformed into the loving word "husband'. "And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi [my husband] and shalt call me no more Baali [my lord]."

by Hannah Whital Smith "The Christians Secret of a Happy Life"