Morning By Morning #338

My darling, there is no flaw in you.

Song of Songs 4:7

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

Yesterday we considered how the Lord sees His church as full of beauty, and today we see Him confirm His praise of His beloved through the use of a precious negative: “There is no flaw in you.” It’s as though the thought may have occurred to the Bridegroom that our accusing world would insinuate He had mentioned only the beautiful parts of His bride, purposely omitting any features that are deformed or defiled. Thus, He sums up His description of her by saying she is completely beautiful and devoid of any flaw whatsoever. A tiny flaw could be covered easily and would not detract from her beauty in the least, but the Lord has removed every tiny flaw of each believer.

If He had said there is no hideous scar, no horrible deformity, or no deadly tumor in His bride, we might have been astonished. But when He declares she is free from even the slightest flaw, the depth of our astonishment is greatly deepened. Even if He had promised simply to remove all flaws eventually we would have had reason for eternal joy, but when He says it is already done, who can suppress their emotions of the most intense satisfaction and delight? O dear believer, here is “the richest of foods” (Ps. 63:5), so eat till your soul is fully satisfied with “delicacies fit for a king” (Gen. 49:20)!

Christ Jesus has no quarrel with His bride, and although she often wanders from Him and may often “grieve [His] Holy Spirit” (Eph. 4:30), He does not allow her faults to affect His love. Sometimes He rebukes her but always in the most tender of ways and with the kindest of intentions, for even then He refers to her as “My darling.” He has no remembrance of our foolishness and does not harbor bad thoughts of us; instead He pardons us and loves us as much after we sin as before the offense. What a wonderful thing this is. For if Jesus harbored hurts like we are so prone to do, how could He fellowship with us? Believers may be upset with the Lord for some work of His sovereignty in our lives we don’t like, but our precious Husband knows our foolish hearts all too well to take any offense by our bad manners.

From the pen of Jim Reimann:

Although believers are still undergoing sanctification, when it comes to our forgiving Savior, we are even now “holy and blameless in his sight” (Eph. 1:4). And in the same book as that quote we are told, “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless” (Eph. 5:25 – 27).

Spurgeon today refers to Jesus as “our precious Husband.” Thus, it is our heavenly Spouse who says, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more” (Isa. 43:25). Unfortunately we remember our sins, but thankfully our Savior does not. Perhaps we should adopt His view, for whose view is actually “the true truth,” as some may ask for emphasis? Once again, thankfully it is His view that counts for eternity!

“Praise the LORD, O my soul, andforget not all his benefits—who forgives all [my] sins” (Ps. 103:2 – 3), and who sees me as “holy and blameless”!