Moved to Tears

DEVOTION
EPHESIANS
MOVED TO TEARS
Eph 5:25-33
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery — but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
NIV
The second of three devotions from this same group of words from my Lord deals with my being the bride of Christ. It never ceases to amaze me when I consider the love of God and how he demonstrates that to me on a continual basis. The simple fact I have been made holy, I have been cleansed, I have been washed with water through the word and I have been presented to him as a radiant church just boggles my mind. I understand it all but I still am so completely in awe with the reality of it, that God would do such a thing for me. Oh I know he did it for everyone, but that includes me, which knowing me, really boggles my mind. I know there have been some and still are and will more than likely been really bad people, evil people who have, do and will do far greater evil deeds then I ever did, but that still does not negate my sin. Yet here I stand now in the presence of my almighty God without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. I am in the position not because of anything I have done to earn it, but it is due completely one hundred percent because of Jesus. What kind of love is this? To be loved that much is overwhelming. And all I can do in return is to love him back with all my heart, my mind, my soul and my strength which if so weak and small in comparison to him. Why do I desire should love? Why do I desire all that he has done for me, in me and through me? I am nobody special, no great person of fame. I have not accomplished much for either the benefit of mankind or for the kingdom of God and yet here I stand at the right hand of God the father with Christ. Here I am the object of his great love and compassion, his mercy, his divine grace, his forgiveness and his salvation. And to top all that off I have been filled with his Holy Spirit, mark with his seal as one of his. How can it be? When I spend any time pondering on these things, I am moved to tears.