I recently read this beautiful post I hope it speaks to your heart as much as it did mine .

WE MISSED THE WEDDING!
Do you remember reading the wonderful testimony of the Waller family in the last issue of Above Rubies # 86 (they serve the vineyard farmers on the
West Bank of Israel)? This last weekend Colin and I looked forward to attending the wedding of their daughter, Victoria to Aaron Hood. Everyone was invited to come for the whole weekend to Kenlake State Park in Kentucky. We did not know the exact time the wedding would take place. It was to be a surprise-- a picture of waiting for the Heavenly Bridegroom who comes for His bride, but we know "neither the day nor the hour" (Matthew 25:13). 

Colin and I drove up Saturday morning, thinking they surely wouldn't have the wedding before then! However, we arrived to find we missed the wedding! They blew the shofars in the night and the wedding was held at
midnight, down by the lake in the moonlight--a glorious two and a half hour ceremony! We were slumbering and sleeping in our bed at home when the cry came, "Behold the bridegroom comes, go ye out to meet him" (Matthew 25:6)! Can you believe it? We missed!

However, although the ceremony was at
midnight, we learned they were going to have the wedding feast at 3.00 pm on Sunday. We drove home again Saturday, and then drove up just in time for the feast after our Sunday service. We were glad we could at least be part of this wonderful celebration.

Love from Nancy Campbell

 

What a beautiful picture as we don't know the hour and even those who believed they were prepared and waiting for His coming were disappointed and unprepared. The Time of His return is closer than we think and our time of preparation for our hearts and lives in purity is short . In Ester, she spent a year preparing for her bridegroom with purification treatments and beauty baths awaiting the Day of her precious time of testing and joining with the King.
Have you been fasting from the things of this world? Have you been purging your life of earthly parasites and carnal disease? Have you finally taken that step of obedience in baptized? What are you waiting for? Would you not take a bath at least before your own wedding? How much more should we prepare ourselves to marry the King of Kings? We are cleansed through the washing of His blood and the water; therefore stop crawling back into the sinful life. Remove yourself from the dirty streets of a commonplace peasant, and get your self up to the palace and the places of preparation and start your fast of separation and purification from the things of the world to the things only for princesses’ princes and
Queens -Melody