Response and Reward

In the letter to the church in Sardis, Jesus presented Himself as the victorious Lord of the church. The reward to the overcoming church in Sardis was the eternal position in His hand and the garment prepared for eternity. There is much said in the Revelation concerning garments and how a person appears clothed. Rev 19:7-8(NASB)7"Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready." 8It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 9Then he said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb '" And he said to me, "These are true words of God." Ephesians 2:10(NASB) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
I see in this that God provides and we accept and move in His provision with faith in Him as our covenant response to Him and His provision. Our focus has to remain on Him, even when we are doing the work that is His will for us. If our focus waivers, we do not complete the work He gave us to do because if we waiver, the work becomes ours and not His.

The reward for the overcoming of this human hindrance of losing our focus is to be given the privilege of doing His works with faithful connection with Him and He will be faithful to us that we do not lose that connection. II Timothy 1:12(ESV) which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. In most translations that verse reads, "what I have entrusted..." But this translation points out that the works and the completion of the works is entrusted to us. I appreciate that He is able to guard not only the works but my fulfilling the same! I need that. I falter in my focus and need the Holy Spirit to bring me back to awareness too many times not to recognize my need for complete reliance on God.