“There is no spot in you” (Song of Solomon 4:7)

Having pronounced His Church beautiful, Christ judges her spotless. This was after He specifically mentions the captivating beauty of her eyes, teeth, lips, mouth, temples, neck and breasts. A spot can easily be covered with cosmetics, but if you’re saved, you don’t need cosmetics, because the blood of Christ has made you perfect in His sight, and what God sees, do not doubt. Trust what He says by faith, no matter how unlovely you feel.

If He loved you with a hideous scar, a horrible deformity, a cancerous growth, you would still be infinitely blessed; but when He proclaims you free from even the slightest spot, you realize He’s removed every defect, and you stand in awe at the marvelous work of the cross.

If He had only promised to remove your spots gradually, you would have rejoiced in hope, but you are spotless now, and forever! “I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness” (Isaiah 61:10).

Christ has no quarrel with His spouse. She often wanders from Him, and can grieve His Holy Spirit, but He doesn’t allow her faults to affect His love. He sometimes corrects her, but it’s always in the tenderest manner, with the kindest intentions: He calls her “My love”, even as He disciplines her.

After He forgives, He doesn’t remind her of her past, He thinks good thoughts of us, and pardons and loves us as if the offence had never taken place. This is a good thing, for if Christ were as mindful of our sins as we are, how could He commune with us? Many times a saint will be ungrateful when something bad happens to him, but our Lord knows our foolish hearts too well to take offence at our bad manners.

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