We are to prepare ourselves to be His Bride!
Peter wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Peter chapter 1:
13 So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! Stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a greater measure of grace will be released to you.
Who is Peter writing to? To the Elect ones who have been sanctified of THE SPIRIT, for obedience and sprinkling of The Blood of Jesus Christ… thus you and me. We should expect a greater measure of grace and peace to be released to us and multiplied. We should have an anticipation to be used in a greater measure as our hearts and minds are being prepared in the Truth of The Gospel.
14 As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desires that you followed when you didn’t know better.
15 Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One Who called you.
16 For Scripture says: “You are to be Holy, because I am Holy.”
17 Since you call on Him as your Heavenly Father, the impartial Judge Who judges according to each one’s works, live each day with Holy awe and reverence throughout your time on earth.
18 For you know that your lives were ransomed once and for all from the empty and futile way of life handed down from generation to generation. It was not a ransom payment of silver and gold, which eventually perishes,
19 but the precious Blood of Christ—Who like a spotless, unblemished lamb was sacrificed for us.
If it weren’t possible for us to be Holy, The Holy Spirit would not express the expectation. We are to live each day in Holy awe and reverence. To keep this command fresh in our minds, my wife and I have begun taking Holy Communion each day before breakfast. This prepares our hearts and minds for action.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5:
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 He Who calls you is faithful, Who also will do it.
Who sanctifies you? THE GOD of Peace Himself!
Jesus spoke in John chapter 17:
17 Sanctify them by Your Truth. Your Word is Truth.
18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the
Truth.
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their Word;
21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:
23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one (unity), and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
In order to be included in the Bride of Christ, we must be Holy which in turn will assure us of being in unity with one another. We are to be sanctified, or set apart, by the Truth of HIS Word. With the Truth in us, we will discern what and who is before us and we will reject anything that is unholy.