Glorious things await the bride of Christ. Chad meditates on the wondrous love Christ has for us, and our curious imaginations and interpretations of what Christ actually looks like. A beautiful, uplifting episode that ends with a meditation on the wedding feast of Christ and His church. Stephanie Wright sings "Radiant In Light".

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Lyrics for Radiant in Light

The day will come

We will see you with our eyes

Behold my Beloved

The day will come

We will stand in paradise

Behold my Beloved

To the risen King of love

Whose Word has led the way

For Your beauty, glorified

I have waited for this day

Your unveiled face

Chorus

Radiant in light

My beloved, my friend

Clothed in glory

In a world without end

In The New Jerusalem

Amen

And on this mountain

We will celebrate a feast

Behold my Beloved

A table waits

Prepared for Your bride

Behold my Beloved

To the risen King of love

Whose Word has led the way

For Your beauty, glorified

I have waited for this day

Your unveiled face

Chorus

Radiant in light

My beloved, my friend

Clothed in glory

In a world without end

In The New Jerusalem

Amen

Chad graces us with another beautiful and instructive meditation on Song of Songs. One takeaway is that we should never hesitate to embrace the grace offered to us by our Saviour. Colin Heinrich sings one of Hidden Streams stellar songs "One Night AS I Lay Sleeping".

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Lyrics to "One Night As I Lay Sleeping"

One night as I was sleeping

My heart awakened, in a dream

On my, door my love was knocking

Saying open my beloved

Swing open wide the door to me

But I felt naked, and ashamed

So I waited…

For a better time

I waited…

For a better way

And the waiting

Was my undoing

My great loss

In my heart

Rain will fall

In my heart

Dark clouds gather

But You hold the key to open the door

I fall in your arms, to praise and adore

My Lord and my lover

My God and my Savior

Lovers forever

Lovers forever

Amen

All the things that haunt me

All the empty spaces, I tried to fill

only your love can redeem

By your mercy, by your grace

United in paradise

My redemption

By your sacrifice

But I waited…

For a better time

I waited…

For a better way

And the waiting

Was my undoing

My great loss

Won’t you tell, tell my beloved

I am sick with love

Tell my beloved

That I’m sorry

Tell my beloved

My soul failed

My ways failed

And its my great loss

We live in a world that has so grossly perverted the idea of love, so its easy to avoid thinking about God's love for us, because that could be a little gross and uncomfortable. Thankfully scripture gives us beautiful readings on love, and Chapter 4 of Song of Songs is a great love poem. Chad meditates and encourages us all, and Chris Lizotte and Jamie Eichler sing "Come to the Garden, My Beloved"

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