Building A Bride

Laying out palms for him

Rejoicing as he enters the Holy City

Rejoicing as he enters into us

Creation receives its yearning

Many sons of God revealed

And the wedding banquet of the Lamb


Proclaiming the return of the King

To the principalities and authorities

Declaring the manifold wisdom of God

Reclaiming the territory

Kicking out the squatters

The Lion of Judah roars

Terrifying and eviscerating the enemy

Restoring righteousness in the heavens

Kinsman redeemers to cross Jordan

Waters of death rolling back to Adam

Repairers of the breach

Healers, builders, leaders, servants

His hands, his feet, his physical body

His righteousness in the earth

Here we are, the glory of creation

Us

The Warrior Bride of Christ

Poetry in motion

A perfect, impossibly beautiful Bride

Lovely in face and form

Loving and yielded she makes herself

In the arms of her Bridegroom

Yet terrible and fierce against the enemy

Deborah, Hannah, Ruth, Esther

Anna, Elizabeth, Mary, Eunice

Every vessel honored by the Master

A massive biologic machine of eternal life

Each cell fitted to the next

Each member in harmonious function

Destiny departed from: now reborn

Corruption liberated to perfection

A glorious image of restoration

The pictures form

The puzzle rattles into formation

Masterpieces all, filled with Glory

The temple takes its form

Living stone by stone

Piece by piece


Stephen Pursell,

original: 11/14/02, revised: 8/14