I am starting a series on the mistakes that brides and bridegrooms make before and after the wedding, which will eventually ruin their marriages in the future if not corrected early. The foundation you laid after wedding will determine the success or failure of the marriage. These messages are culled from my upcoming eBook "The Bride & her Bridegroom".
Stop and think with me for a moment about the word “bridegroom” or “groom.” To groom means: “to clean and care for; to make neat or attractive; polish.” The bridegroom is the one who desires to make the bride clean and attractive. This speaks not only of the outward appearance, but also of the inward heart and soul. In Bible times, a bride would take a purifying bath before the wedding. As a godly bride (and also the Bride of Christ), your purifying bath is to bathe yourselves in the Word of God, allowing His word to purify, soften, cleanse, refresh, and rejuvenate your hearts and spirits. This is the duty of the groom – teaching the bride God’s word.
Another thing the groom desires is for the Bride to be beautiful by the clothes she wears. He has to make sure that she is lacking nothing and looking good all the time.
To groom can also have the connotation of preparing or training someone such as grooming a person to do a certain job or task, or to act in a certain way.
As a groom, you are mandated to learn from Christ our spiritual Groom. Christ our Groom is training us to be loving, kind, long-suffering, gentle, pure, merciful, and peaceable. Since our Groom is also a King, He is training us to rule and reign with Him by allowing us to be tested and tried by various trials, instructing us how to be warriors who pray, worship, and fast. God expect every groom to do likewise; following the footsteps of the Master.
If these things are lacking in you as a groom, your marriage might not be able to stand the test of time.
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