This song has been breaking my heart here lately. It makes me so sad to see my actions and the bride of Christ all together whoring herself to other things that cannot compare to what we have in our bridegroom.
My favorite part is,
I am so easily satisfied
by the call of lovers so less wild
That I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood
I am so content with the things of this world, when I have a Savior that is ultimately satisfying to the depths of my soul. I desire worldly things that pass away easily over a passionate loving beautiful Creator. My satisfaction with mediocrity is tragic.
Wedding Dress lyrics:
If you could love me as a wife
and for my wedding gift, your life
Should that be all I'd ever need
or is there more I'm looking for
and should I read between the lines
and look for blessings in disguise
To make me handsome, rich, and wise
Is that really what you want
I am a whore I do confess
But I put you on just like a wedding dress
and I run down the aisle
and I run down the aisle
I'm a prodigal with no way home
but I put you on just like a ring of gold
and I run down the aisle to you
So could you love this bastard child
Though I don't trust you to provide
With one hand in a pot of gold
and with the other in your side
I am so easily satisfied
by the call of lovers so less wild
That I would take a little cash
Over your very flesh and blood
Because money cannot buy
a husband's jealous eye
When you have knowingly deceived his wife
Ezekiel 16 is all about the Lord's faithless bride.
· Verse 6-7 says, "And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I made you flourish like a plant of the field."
o This just shows the beautiful picture of us wallowing dying in our sin when Christ comes along and tells us to live, and not only that He grows us and makes us thrive. We were worthless people, and he lovingly commands us to live.
· Verse 8 is gorgeous. “…I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.”
o This is such a beautiful picture of Christ covering us with his righteousness and making us His. This verse amazes me in the fact that He loves me and has a covenant and wanted me for Himself and made me His.
· Verse 15 brings the heartbreak after talking about how the Lord lovingly adorns us, anoints us with oil, and provides for us. It says, “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.”
o The verses go on to talk about how this bride destroyed the things that he had given her. It says she made idols out of the jewelry, and the children she bore him, she sacrificed. In verse 22 it says, “And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.”
o So often we do this, we throw away the gifts God has given us, or use them for our own selfish ambition and desires, not remembering that Christ has brought us out of our dying state. Those gifts he has given us are meant to serve him, to honor him, and to be used in a way that demonstrates our covenant with our Savior.
· The chapter goes on talking about the bride’s sins, but in the end, after everything that has done, still, the Lord establishes a new covenant. 62 says, “I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord”
o Ah! God’s character completely astounds me. After all is done he establishes a new covenant with us, all so that we will know that He is God, and He is most worthy, holy, glorious, sovereign, highest, and the only one deserving of praise.
