The excellent bride

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.

Psalm 16:3 ESV

I love this verse! Just as it is important how we talk about our brothers and sisters in Christ individually, it is also important how we talk about each other corporately! We need to remember that corporately together we are the bride of Christ. The apple of his eye. The delight of his heart. The one he came to die for to redeem for himself. He is jealous for his bride. It hurts his ears to hear bad things said about her.

The church is not perfect, far from it, but when Jesus looks at us he sees what we are destined to become. The spotless bride without any spot or wrinkle or blemish. Not only that but he sees the excellence that there is in every true expression of himself that exists in the love and kindness shown within the church and out towards his world.

When he looks at us together he says, "Excellent!" He sees the quality. He wants us to do the same.