"The Glorious Bride" -2

"The King's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold." (Psalms 45:13) What makes the Bride so glorious is that which is within her, the glory of God: "And I saw no temple therein; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it" (Revelation 21:22). On a similar line, what makes us glorious now is not us, but Jesus Christ; without Jesus we have no form of godliness at all; we have no righteousness, because He is our righteousness; and we have nothing within us that is pleasing to God, except His Son Jesus Christ, in Whom He is well pleased. Several times in Revelation the "Lamb's Book of Life" is mentioned as a qualifier for being justified or made worthy; to be qualified for eternal life, you must be written in the Lamb's Book of Life; to be disqualified for the lake of fire, you must be written in the Lamb's Book of Life; and to be part of the Bride of Christ, your name must be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. It is pretty obvious to me that being written in the Lamb's Book of Life is the ticket to having eternal life, and that the only way that you can receive that ticket is through Jesus Christ, for it is He that writes your name within that Book, and it is He that can blot your name out, if He so wishes (Revelation 3:5). So then, what is the qualification for having Him write your name in the Lamb's Book of Life? The sweet, short and simple answer, is to put all of our faith in Jesus Christ! The other thing that makes the inside look so good is what is on the outside, mainly that we are clothed in His righteousness. When it is speaking about "her clothing is of wrought gold", it is speaking her golden gown, pure white and radiant; a gown that is only available by the washing of the blood of Jesus, and by having our sins replaced by His righteousness... "Even as David also described the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it the reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised." (Romans 4:6-12)