PROMISE FOR DECEMBER 1ST

"Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear, forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him." Psalm 45:10-11

WAS ever a proposal of marriage couched in more delicate and beautiful phrase? With astonishment I read it again and again. Surely it can mean nothing less than this: I am invited by the King of Kings to become the bride of His royal Son--His only begotten Son and heir of all things, and since clothed with the imputed robe of His righteousness, which hides all the unrighteousness of my own robes, I am really considered beautiful in the eyes of the King, I am told, so that He desires to make me His bride--if I am willing for His dear sake to forget my own people and my father's (Adam's) house--the world in general, with all its hopes, aims and ambitions. R. 1494, c.2, p.5.