Our Rewards Forever!
So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no
one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother
or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who
shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time...and in the age
to come, eternal life.”
Mark 10: 29-30
Grocery and drug stores issue reward cards that
provide immediate discounts on purchases.
And there is a reward credit card to suit every desire:
travel discounts, airline miles, cash rebates, gas discounts,
and more. Some rewards are immediate; others accumulate
over time.
Jesus said a lot about rewards—again, some immediate
and some long-term. In fact, He warned about the pursuit
of immediate, short-term rewards, such as receiving praise
from men. Instead, we should seek the rewards that come
from God in eternity (Matthew 6:16-21).
That is not to say that God doesn’t reward faithfulness in
this life—He does. He is a rewarder of all who seek and
follow Him, both now and in eternity (Hebrews 11:6).
We don’t follow Christ to be rewarded, but His
grace assures us that His blessings will be ours.
"Faith is to believe what we do not see;
and the reward of this faith is to see
what we believe."
Augustine
