Christ will delight to see His bride invested with a robe that speaks of the love of His bride for Himself. Happy for us to realize that every act that we do out of love to Christ is a stitch in the robe in which we shall appear in glory for the delight of the heart of Christ. What a joy to know that though we may be of no account in the world, unnoticed, despised and misunderstood, yet every little act that is done out of love to Christ will at last come into display in a day of glory. Not a cup of cold water given to one of His little ones will be forgotten by Christ. All that has been done for Him, all that has been expended upon Him, all of this world that has been refused for Him—all will be remembered in the day of glory. “The fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.” Yet again, let us remember, all will be the fruit of His own grace, for “to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen.”

The garment we shall wear then is being woven now. The robe we shall put on with gladness in the presence of Christ in the day of glory is being woven amid the sorrows of earth in the day of His rejection. The sorrows of earth, the trials by the way, the rough ways, the dark days, the weariness and weakness, are being used for the trial of our faith to call forth the graces of Christ. The meekness and lowliness, the patience and gentleness, the grace and love of Christ, which the trial of faith calls forth, are being wrought into the garment that will be worn on the day of the marriage of the Lamb.