IN THAT EARLY MORNING LIGHT Woman enters the tomb, but she cannot find Him. Wandering though the garden, her tears blind her to the Divine Gardener. Then…He calls her name. A new dawn of understanding floods her mind and heart. This time she does not run or hide. Incredulously, she embraces Him as never before and is made whole again. Once constructed from Adam’s side, now she is reconstructed from the pierced side of the Christ. He has risen to redeem the lost and broken, and draw them into His eternal beauty.
Hovering over His recreation with special attention, the Redeemer carefully reconstructs a new creation from a pierced side, a broken heart, and a risen Savior in a fallen and devastated world. Designed from eternity past to be loving, joyful, peaceable, patient, kind and good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled, the new creature grows through various trials that produce endurance. Endurance has its perfect result to make perfect and complete, lacking in nothing, growing inwardly strong, beautiful, and mature beneath the Master’s skillful and loving hands. Though outwardly still wasting away, yet inwardly being renewed day by day as He weaves a new heart within her. Fearfully and wonderfully, God is at work, using all the circumstances of life to create a gentle and quiet spirit and conform her to reflect His own beauty.
Certainly this new creation in progress is a continuing amazement and a wonder to the great cloud of witnesses enraptured with the Messiah’s handiwork. She is learning to be warmly satisfied in Her Creator’s presence. From time to time she catches her reflection in the eyes of her Sacred Lover to discover that she is significant because she belongs to Him, not because of her fine performance or great achievements. She casts all her cares upon Him and rests in the security of His wisdom and power.
Who is this whom the King has brought into His chambers? Is she not the beloved Bride? How beautiful you are, Bride of Christ. He calls you His darling, His beautiful one. He calls you to come away with Him because the winter of fruitlessness and loneliness is past, the rain of weeping is over and gone. The flowers of joy and promise are blooming in His presence. The time for pruning the vines has come, the voice of turtledoves is heard in the land, and the vines in blossom give out their fragrance, so is His love for you fresh and new as springtime. He calls your name. He calls you to a new life, clean and forgiven and free. Listen to His voice calling to you now, Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come along! (Song of Songs 2:10-13).