Poetic...Beautiful

You might not like Luther or much of what he has to say. If so, I think you are probably missing out on much of the beauty of the Gospel, but either way, here is something profound and beautiful. To be read and enjoyed by all:

So he [Jesus] makes the sin of the believing soul his own through its wedding ring, which is faith, and acts as if he had done it [i.e. sin] himself, so that sin could be swallowed up in him. For his unconquerable righteousness is too strong for all sin, so that is made single and free from all its sins on account of its pledge, that is its faith, and can turn to the eternal righteousness of its bridegroom, Christ. Now is not this a happy business? Christ, the rich, noble, and holy bridegroom, takes in marriage this poor, contemptible and sinful little prostitute, takes away all her evil, and bestows all his goodness upon her! It is no longer possible for sin to overwhelm her, for she is now found in Christ and is swallowed up by him, so that she possesses a rich righeousness in her bridegroom.

Like I said, Poetic...beautiful.