The Bride Of Christ

Why doubt you the worthiness of the church
To acquit herself as the Bride of Christ?
Now she's seen only in robes that besmirch;
The shambles and carnage is this world's price,
But then, on Christ's glorious wedding day,
Her saints will, in white robes, be newly gowned,
Unblemished by earth's grim deathly fray,
Her perfection most worthy to be crowned!
If from a shapeless lump of dusty earth,
Man in His own image the Lord can make,
He can fashion a queen from His old church,
Gowned in seamless white, for His Son to take!
View not her throes as if they'll always be,
With Satan chained, her regality see!

The churches of the world are locked in heated battle with a world that is dominated by its prince, Satan. He has turned on Christ with all the fury and hatred of an enemy that knows the futility of his history-long rebellion. No church is perfect, but Godly believers , faithfully standing firm, exist in every one. They are encouraged by the promise of Jesus that His church in the world will become His beautiful and spotless bride in heaven and will be His Queen, helping Him administer the Kingdom through the eons of eternity.

To look scornfully at the faults of today's church is like looking at a soldier in front-line battle---dirty, disheveled, exhausted---yet bravely continuing to fight, and scorning his grime. True believers are soldiers who never give up, though outnumbered and weary, they know that victory will be theirs.

"Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear. (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.) Then the angel said to me, 'Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!'" (Revelation 19:7-9)

I guess so! To be invited to that supper, you will have to accept Jesus as your Lord and live the rest of your life for Him. By accepting Him, you will not only get an invitation to the supper, but you will also be admitted to heaven on Judgment Day. You will be a part of His worldwide church. Don't expect any church on earth to be perfect, for some of its members are not true believers, and all of them commit sin. It is only by the blood of Christ shed for us that anyone is going to be invited.