Therefore

"Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." 1 Corinthians 15:58 I love the word "therefore" when I see it in the Bible. It always means someone is summing everything up. That's what the Apostle Paul was doing here. He was talking about the resurrection of our bodies when Christ returns and explaining that these bodies we now have can't live forever that they will have to be transformed to be like Christ's resurrected body. When that day comes it is going to be amazing and it is going to happen in the blink of an eye. But for now we don't know when it is going to happen. We need to be always looking forward to that time and expecting it to happen but in the mean time, Paul encourages us to be steadfast, immovable and always abounding the work of the Lord. In other words, there is still work to be done here and we need to get to it. These bodies we have are not going to last forever, why not use them up in the work of the Lord. Wouldn't you rather be doing something that will last forever than to just be doing something? I would.