I wrote “Wedding Song” on the eve of my brother’s marriage to his New Zealand bride and sang it first the next morning as his “bride in white” finally stood with her groom.
Infused with promise, delight, intended permanence – a relationship of sacrifice and commitment as two become one – what if all weddings were in fact a faint, blurred reflection of something even greater?
Weddings resonate through the Bible. Jesus even supplied the wine for one of them! The final scene of history is described as a wedding feast – Jesus in perfect relationship and celebration with all of humanity who have accepted His approach to us.
Could it be that all love takes its definition – its shape – from this One who comes to us?
“Love divine, love defined: love come down.”
Jesus is utterly committed to us, has died to release us to be able to enter into relationship with Him. He has given all. We are like the other party in the relationship – will we accept the love lavished on us or will we walk away?
Wedding Song
Here she comes! Here she comes –
bride in white!
Here she comes! Here she comes –
his delight!
What God has joined together,
let man not separate.
What God has joined together,
may we celebrate!
See them now, see them now,
stand together.
Hear them now, hear them now,
say, “forever”.
What God has joined together…
Love defined,
love divine,
love come down.
Sacrifice,
Jesus Christ,
love come down.
Love revealed,
love that heals
love come down.
love defined,
love divine,
love come down.
What God has joined together…
The Lord is good
and His Love forever endures.
The Lord is good and He is
reaching for us.
What God has joined together…