Did you ever wonder how cloth is made? It's done by weaving. Weaving is a method of taking two separate sets of threads and interlacing them together at right angles to form fabric. Weaving cloth is done by using a loom, which is a device that holds one set of threads in place, while lacing the other set of threads over and under the opposing set of threads, perpendicular to each other. Continuing this process over and over again produces cloth.
The first step on a loom is to load the threads in one direction, side by side. This can be hundreds, even thousands, of threads all traveling in the same direction. For our sake, we'll call this direction North. All people are traveling through time, headed in the same direction, side by side on their journey through life (heading from South to North).
Those that accept the Gospel and become baptized believers in Jesus are woven together by a perpendicular thread (traveling East to West) creating the fabric of the church of Jesus. This perpendicular thread is the blood of Christ. This is what weaves us together as brothers and sisters in Christ. It's our common bond.
God is the Devine Weaver. His spiritual loom, which is His salvation plan through Grace, was designed before the world began, but not assembled and ready to use until He sent his Son to earth to die on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins, resurrecting from the dead to give us the promise of eternal life. When the Apostles started the first church, God hit the start button and the loom began to work, making spiritual cloth, the church. This spiritual cloth lasts for eternity, and is constantly being weaved, and has been for 2000 years, and will continue to be woven together until Jesus returns.
One thing about a loom. It can be set up to make exquisite colors and patterns. This is done by feeding different color threads through the loom. God's loom is constantly doing that. The church is made up of all types of people, nations, cultures, races, and talents. This is true of the world wide church as well as the local congregation, people woven together by God through Jesus.
Over the centuries a beautiful tapestry is being created. When Jesus returns on that final day and calls us all home to Heaven, this tapestry will be finished. And I can just picture God wrapping this beautiful quilt of many colors, His church, His children, around Him, as His worshipers around His Throne, as a loving Father forever surrounded by His loving children. What a beautiful sight that will be.
