Wait on your Lord. Wait as His covenant bride, held fast not by our promises to Him but His promises to us. His covenant love will carry us to the day He returns. He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).

It was a day of joy, and a day of sorrow, for in this life the two often walk hand in hand. It was the 24th of October 2025—a day God had appointed for a brother in Christ to wed his beloved. After a full week of rain, the sun broke through the clouds almost as if heaven wanted to smile with us on a day accompanied by its underlying sorrows. I say sorrows because we’d hoped the bridegroom’s sister would be there. But she lay in her hospital bed, joining us virtually—so we thought—only for as long as God would permit her.

Still, we celebrated; we enjoyed a beautiful day. We watched a radiant bride walk down the aisle toward her groom. We watched them make promises to one another, strong enough to weather the storms of this broken world, because God would be their anchor.

That is the beauty of covenant.

Covenant is—in fact—how God has always related to his people. He initiates: “I will be your God, and you will be my people” (Jeremiah 30:22; Exodus 6:7). And as a faithful bridegroom, God continually pursues his wandering bride (Hosea 2:14). And then Paul tells us that the one flesh union of marriage points to the greater mysterious union of Christ and his bride, the Church (Ephesians 5:32). The Church is the bride who Christ laid his life down for.

A More Beautiful, Glorious Aisle

On that day, underlying sorrow came fully into view when the groom’s sister took her final breath. After a long battle with cancer, God called her home and she heeded his call. As her sister-in-law walked down an earthly aisle, unknown to us, she had already walked down a heavenly aisle to be received by the bridegroom who knew and loved her before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4-5). This bridegroom had promised to prepare a place for her in his Father’s house (John 14:1-2). Not a day early, not a day late, at 27 years of age she made her move (Psalm 139:16).

She had hoped one day to marry on earth. Yet Christ her ultimate bridegroom called on her sooner. I believe whatever joys she longed for in an earthly marriage, she now knows in fuller, richer measure. As her brother rejoiced over his bride, Christ rejoices over her (Isaiah 62:5)—God’s flower, Ruvarashe. How beautiful is that?

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