Pastor's Desk
September 24 , 2006
WHAT WE DO today matters… forever! What we do with our lives on earth as believers determines how we will spend eternity. God has eternal rewards in store for us! But do we know what we will be rewarded for? Bruce Wilkinson, in his book, “A Life God Rewards” summarizes some of the things that God will reward us for in eternity:
God will reward us for…
- … seeking Him through spiritual acts such as fasting and praying (Matthew 6:6; Hebrews 11:6)
- … submitting to your employer as a faithful steward (Matthew 24:45-47; Ephesians 6:8; Colossians 3:22-24)
- …self-denial in His service (Mark 16: 24-27)
- …serving those in need in His name (Mark 9:41)
- …suffering for His name and reputation (Luke 6:22-23)
- …sacrifices you make for Him (Luke 6:35). In fact, Jesus said that every person who sacrifices to follow Him will be rewarded a hundredfold (Matthew 19:29)!
- …sharing of your time, talent, and treasure to further His kingdom (Matthew 6:3-4; 1 Timothy 6:18-19)
However our ultimate motivation for serving God will not be just for the rewards but for the simple fact that Jesus deserves our whole life for what he has done for us: “When you have done everything you were told to do, [you] should say, we are unworthy servants, we have only done our duty” (Luke 17:10).
--Pastor Phil Mittelstaedt
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“Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for,
but that you may be rewarded fully”
(2 John 8).
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