never again will adam blush when you call him

There is no doubt who it is that dresses the bride in her finery…

I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousand of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” Revelation 5:11-13

Let us speak the following prayer of Adoration and Praise to God together, saying it out loud, joining our voices with angels numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
And, dear reader, please take your time and slowly read through this, let it sink in deep, and then proclaim it out of the depths of your soul, in this way experiencing the blessing of communion with God as you reflect on all he has done for you in Jesus.

Kindness flows from you, Lord, pure and continual.
You had cast us off, as was only just, but mercifully you forgave us;
you hated us and you were reconciled to us,
you cursed us and you blessed us;
you banished us from paradise, and you called us back again;
you took from us the fig leaves that had made us so unseemly a garment, and you put on us a cloak of great value;
you opened the prison gates and gave the condemned a pardon;
you sprinkled us with clean water and washed away the dirt.

Never again, after all this, will Adam blush when you call him,
never again will he try to hide because his conscience reproaches him,
never again will he seek concealment under the trees in the garden.
The flaming sword will nevermore whirl about the walls of paradise and cut off the entrance from those who approach it.

For us that were heirs to his sin, all has been changed to rejoicing;
for man now has access to paradise and even to heaven itself.
The whole creation, heaven and earth, is at one again in friendship,
its former differences forgotten;
men join their voices with the angels
and echo the angels’ praise of God…

There is no doubt who it is that dresses the bride in her finery:
it is, of course, Christ—
he that is and was and will be.
Blessed is he, now and throughout the ages.
Yes, and very amen, in Jesus’ name. Gregory of Nyssa