“DID SOMEONE MENTION AN AWARD?”

You may recognize the title if you ever watched “The Grinch that Stole Christmas”. In our family, we have a lot of fun using that question.  We would agree that everyone likes being rewarded. As said often, our salvation is so much more than a ticket to heaven. The passion of the New Testament writers was that those who had put their faith in Christ might come to know just how great and just how encompassing their salvation was. Knowing God as our Father has rewards for both this life and the one to come. However, there is one catch, one condition, one qualification we must recognize. The scripture does say that it is possible to lose rewards (1 Corinthians  3:10-15). So what’s the condition? How can we be rewarded? The key is found in Hebrews 11:6 which says “And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for He who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.”  Also in Matthew 6:33 we read “But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.”  Each of these two scripture reveals the key word to being rewarded and that word is “seek”. As always, the truth of the scriptures gets right to the heart of the issue. It’s so simple, so powerful, but we are rewarded when we seek to know Him. We are forced to either answer the question honestly or we can try to ignore the question, put it off to a later date, etc. The obvious question is this: am I, are you, currently seeking to know this God who says He is our Father, who is waiting to lavish His love on us? In the next post, I will talk about just how we go about seeking Him, so stay tuned.

“The focus of our heart determines what we will receive.” Peter Parris

Blessings,

Buddy

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