Be inspired! This will touch you and motivate you to “work” for Christ with a holy love.
Sometimes we become weary or wonder why we are serving Christ. Maybe we aren’t seeing the results we’d desire.
First Thessalonians 1:3 says this:
“We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” (ESV).
We can easily skim over the phrase “labor of love.” But read this story from Williams Barclay’s commentary to be inspired.:
There is the labour which is prompted by love. Bernard Newman tells how once he stayed in a Bulgarian peasant’s house. All the time he was there the daughter was stitching away at a dress.
He said to her, “Don’t you ever get tired of that eternal sewing?”
“Oh, no!” she said, “you see this is my wedding dress.”
Work done for love always has a glory.
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Wonder if you thought of every act of service for Christ as a part of your wedding dress welcoming Him when He returns?
Alas, will I be adorned in beauty as my groom views me walking down the aisle. I think of the days that I am disheveled and in tattered rags. He sees me no more as I was, but as His beautiful bride, the one He seeks eternity with. Let me adorn His dress with the finest of threads. Let me add many adornments so that its beauty might glorify Him more.
Thank you, J.D.. I must admit I wondered if I should use the wedding dress because it would seem to refer to only women. So I’m glad it didn’t turn you away from the concept. I think technically I should have used “garment” because we all will be clothed with Jesus’s robe of righteousness, male and female. Plus, there will be no gender in heaven. So thank you for affirming the idea.