Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth says that because of his death on the cross, Christ now sees his bride as beautiful.

He sees us not as what we are, but as what we will be when we stand before him.

Holy, pure, blameless. And with all of that in view, he says to us, behold, you are fair, my love.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest. It's Monday, February 29, 2016.

Nancy's continuing in the teaching series, How to Fall and Stay in Love with Jesus.

Well, if you've been with us the last several days, you know that we are taking our time getting into and through the song of Solomon, or as I like to call it, the song of songs. It's a love song. It's a song about marriage. It's a song about romance. It's a song

about intimacy. But at the heart of it all, it's a song about a God who loves his people

passionately, perfectly, perseveringly.

It's an amazing story and song of the love of God for his people,

the love of Christ for his bride,

and that bride is the church of Jesus Christ,

and if you are a follower of Christ,

belong to him, you are part of that bride.

So this is a love song for you as well.

And we're not moving quickly.

As you know, we've been, I think we're day six today, and we're just getting to the ninth

verse of the first chapter.

We will pick up the pace a little bit as we move along.

But I just want you to savor.

I want to savor. what we're seeing and hearing

and already we're hearing responses from people that this is really speaking to them in terms of

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