October 10, 2025 STORING UP
Romans 2:4-8 “Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to His deeds: to those who by perseverance in doing good, seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious, who do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.”
Even though it may be painful, it is better to hear the truth than not to hear it. This passage may be painful and unpleasant to digest for some, but clearly it is a message we as believers need to hear. Whether we realize it or believe it or not, by the life we live, we are in the process of storing up for the future. The all important question is what are we storing up. By the way, what is written here is not written to condemn or cause us to fear; it is written to remind us that we can be storing up what is good and what will lead to great rewards. Many, including believers, have a tendency to live as though this life is what its all about, forgetting that there is a day of reckoning coming for all-including believers. We are saved by grace and not by works or deeds-that’s a sure fact. However, throughout the scriptures, you find numerous admonitions to be about good deeds. It is super critical to understand the call to do good deeds; it is not to gain God’s approval or to earn His love or to get a pat on the back from others-or even from God. Good deeds are rooted in the goodness of God!!! We have a new identity and we have been and are being transformed into His image and because He is good, we are to be about expressing His goodness through good deeds. Doing good deeds with the right motive not only pleases God and blesses others, it also blesses us. Doing good deeds has a way of eliminating being focused on self. It is a sobering thought, but one day ‘God will render to every man according to His deeds.’ Let His kindness lead us to repentance and to turning from our ways and let us live in a way that expresses the goodness of God. It is simple: because He is good, let us be expressions of His goodness. Jesus came not to be served , but to serve.
1 Timothy 6:18-19 “Instruct them to do good deeds, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.”
Blessings, Buddy
Romans 2:4-8 “Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to His deeds: to those who by perseverance in doing good, seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious, who do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.”
Even though it may be painful, it is better to hear the truth than not to hear it. This passage may be painful and unpleasant to digest for some, but clearly it is a message we as believers need to hear. Whether we realize it or believe it or not, by the life we live, we are in the process of storing up for the future. The all important question is what are we storing up. By the way, what is written here is not written to condemn or cause us to fear; it is written to remind us that we can be storing up what is good and what will lead to great rewards. Many, including believers, have a tendency to live as though this life is what its all about, forgetting that there is a day of reckoning coming for all-including believers. We are saved by grace and not by works or deeds-that’s a sure fact. However, throughout the scriptures, you find numerous admonitions to be about good deeds. It is super critical to understand the call to do good deeds; it is not to gain God’s approval or to earn His love or to get a pat on the back from others-or even from God. Good deeds are rooted in the goodness of God!!! We have a new identity and we have been and are being transformed into His image and because He is good, we are to be about expressing His goodness through good deeds. Doing good deeds with the right motive not only pleases God and blesses others, it also blesses us. Doing good deeds has a way of eliminating being focused on self. It is a sobering thought, but one day ‘God will render to every man according to His deeds.’ Let His kindness lead us to repentance and to turning from our ways and let us live in a way that expresses the goodness of God. It is simple: because He is good, let us be expressions of His goodness. Jesus came not to be served , but to serve.
1 Timothy 6:18-19 “Instruct them to do good deeds, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.”
Blessings, Buddy
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