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Reward
【Eternal Reward】Our eternal
reward reflects the amount of God’s glory that we have allowed to shine through
us. It is like a chandelier that has many light bulbs, some 25 watt, some 50
watt, and some 100 watt. The light bulbs as a whole all give and contribute
light to the room. That’s the way it will be in heaven, but some of us will be
contributing only 25 watts, other 50 and still others a full 100 watts. How
much of God’s light do you want to shine through you?
【Eternal Reward】We must not
be troubled by unbelievers when they say that this promise of reward makes the
Christian life a mercenary affair. There are different kinds of reward. There
is the reward which has no natural connection with the things you do to earn
it, and is quite foreign to the desires that ought to accompany those things.
Money is not the natural reward of love; that is why we call a man a mercenary
if he married a woman for the sake of her money. But marriage is the proper
reward for a real lover, and he is not mercenary for desiring it… The proper
rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but
are the activity itself in consummation.—C.S. Lewis
【Eternal Reward】Henry C.
Morrison, after serving for forty years on the African mission field, headed
home by boat. On that same boat also rode Theodore Roosevelt. Morrison was
quite dejected when, on entering
The a small voice came to
Morrison and said, “Henry-you’re not home yet.”
【Loss of Rewards】In the 1980
Boston Marathon, a young unknown runner named Rosie Ruiz was initially declared
the winner in the women’s division of the 26-mile race. An investigation
followed and it was discovered that this was only the second marathon in which
she had ever run, she had no coach, she trained on an exercise cycle (others
did 120 miles of road work per week), and she had not been seen by any of the
other women runners in the race. It was speculated that she probably rode a
subway for 16 miles to get near the finish line. Rosie was disqualified and lost
the reward-not just the prize for finishing first, but the more lasting
satisfaction of attaining a difficult goal.