Threefold Mulberry Meadow Abigail Dress (Collaboration with Lovely Dress Co.)

Several months back, we talked about collaborating to make a dress (well, two!) and we pretty quickly landed on the idea of relating them to the fellowship we find by grace through faith in Christ.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12:

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

Scripture shows us here that two are better than one—two can do more together than alone. And like we see community reflected in the Trinity—the Father, Sprit and Son—we are made for one another in the body of Christ. What a gift other believers are!

But what about that final, third cord the passage mentions?

Minister and theologian Matthew Henry helps us understand the beautiful portrait of fellowship in Christ described in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12:

“Two together he compares to a threefold cord; for where two are closely joined in holy love and fellowship, Christ will by his Spirit come to them, and make the third, as he joined himself to the two disciples going to Emmaus, and then there is a threefold cord that can never be broken. They that dwell in love, dwell in God, and God in them”.