Everyone knows the Cinderella story, right? Take an ordinary girl that is rejected by her family, mix in a fairy godmother and a little bit of magic, and *poof* she’s a ravishingly beautiful princess. She meets her prince, falls in love, and then has to rush out of their first date before the magic runs out and he sees her as she truly is. But something about her captures his heart and when her shoe gets left behind at the ball, he pursues her, knowing that he’ll find his princess when he finds the girl that the shoe fits. In true fairy-tale fashion, he finds her, they get married, and life continues “happily-ever-after.”
I’ve always been enthralled by tales of princes and princesses, of true love, of “happliy ever after.” But to me these things have always just been stories, nothing more. Sure, some day my prince will come, he’ll sweep me off my feet, and we’ll live happily ever after – or at least that’s what Disney and Rogers & Hammerstein would like me to believe.
But what if it’s true? What if my prince will come one day to sweep me off my feet and what if he is really in love with me and what if we do live happily ever after? What if that wasn’t just a dream every little girl has, but instead a reality. What if it’s actually going to happen?
It is.
I am living in the middle of the greatest love story of all time, and it has a happily-ever-after ending. My Jesus is waiting to come and sweep me off my feet; He’s already enthralled by me; He is in love with me.
Our team has been doing a Bible study on 1 Corinthians 13 – the love chapter, and I’ve been reading books about being “God’s beloved” and the “bride of Christ” and I think it’s starting to get to me (not to mention the fact that I also watched the movie “Enchanted” this month…and it made me long for my “true love’s kiss,” but that’s another story.) Yes, it would be awesome to be passionately pursued by a wonderful gentleman, get married, and live happily-ever-after here on earth…but even if that doesn’t happen in the physical sense, it’s going to happen in the spiritual.
Song of Songs 2:10 says “My lover spoke and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me,'” That’s what Jesus is saying to me as part of the most beautiful and profound love song ever written.
So instead of just sitting around and wishing a prince would come for me, I can actually prepare myself for my Prince. I can grow deeper in my relationship with Him. I can learn all there is to learn about Him. I can spend time with Him. I can tell others about my Prince and assure them that He is coming for them too if they accept Him.
Some day my prince might come, but right now my Prince is passionately pursuing me. And I love it.
