![]() Enjoy C. H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Daily Devotionals. |
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The Lord's admiration of his Church is very wonderful, and his description
of her beauty is very glowing. She is not merely fair, but "all fair." He views her in himself, washed in his sin-atoning blood and clothed
in his meritorious righteousness, and he considers her to be full
of comeliness and beauty. No wonder that such is the case, since it
is but his own perfect excellency that he admires; for the holiness,
glory, and perfection of his Church are his own glorious garments
on the back of his own well-beloved spouse. She is not simply pure,
or well-proportioned; she is positively lovely and fair! She has actual
merit! Her deformities of sin are removed; but more, she has through
her Lord obtained a meritorious righteousness by which an actual beauty
is conferred upon her. Believers have a positive righteousness given
to them when they become "accepted in the beloved" (