What Does It Mean to Get Rewarded By God?

What does it mean to get rewarded by God?

            I would like to start this essay by asking a very important question.  What does it mean to get rewarded by God? To answer this question a Bible verse comes to mind.  Even if you give a cup of water to one of my followers, you will be rewarded.  I will admit that I have been doing for others than myself.  I have done this for many years.  I also will admit that I have a mental illness, and there are times, when I might get irritated very easily.  Right now, I am a very humble man.  I might be in my 50s right now, but God is not finish with me yet.

            Further, you have to decide where you want your rewards.  For example, do you want your rewards while you are on earth or in heaven?  Remember one thing that every word, thought, and feeling have implications for heaven.  According to Matthew 12:36 says that by your words you will be justified and by your words you will be judged.  According to Colossians 3:2 it says that we should set our minds on heavenly things rather than earthly things.  Proverbs 15:3 says that the Lord is watching over the good and evil.  The Lord rewards us according to our things that we have done while here on earth, however, when we receive our glorified bodies, this means that we become like God.  The word of God energizes, changes, and motivated us on a daily basis, as long as we are willing to read it.

                                   

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            Moreover, I would like to inform everyone that God is watching how we manage our money, time, and with our behavior.  We must continue to believe the message of the cross.  We have to live daily for the glory of God.  We must practice what we learn.  Put your trust in Jesus Christ! My actions, thoughts and decisions will determine whether you will go to heaven. I am a sinner that is in need of Jesus Christ.  Something happens to someone who hears the word of God.  I run toward the goal because my prize is heaven.  God’s love is not based on our behavior, it is based on His love for us.  Blessed are those who die in the service for the Lord.   We are going to have a party in heaven because heaven is a place of happiness.  God loves you.  God wants to have an intimate relationship with all of us.  We are going to share in the glory of Jesus Christ.  A man who finds life, finds trust in heaven.  Bless and to be a blessing!

         

Let’s begin by noting the way that Jesus answered Peter’s question: From the Book of Mark!!

At the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. (verses 28-29)

The Gospel of Mark shows that Jesus is talking about two time periods:

No one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. (Mark 10:29-30)

God will reward us generously — but Jesus also warns us that this life is not a life of physical luxury. We will have persecutions, trials and sufferings in this life. But the blessings outweigh the difficulties by a hundred-to-one margin! Whatever sacrifices we make will be richly compensated. The Christian life is certainly “worth it.”

Jesus is not promising to give 100 fields to everyone who gave up a farm to follow him. He is not promising to give 100 mothers. He is not promising to make everyone wealthy. He is not talking in literal terms. He means that the things we receive in the next life will be 100 times as valuable as the things we give up in this life — as measured by real value, eternal value, not by temporary fads about physical things.

Even our trials have spiritual value to our benefit (Romans 5:3-4; James 1:2-4), and this is of greater value than gold (1 Peter 1:7). God sometimes gives us gold and other temporary rewards (perhaps as an indication of better things to come), but the rewards that count most are those that last forever.

I doubt that the disciples understood what Jesus was saying. They were still thinking in terms of a physical kingdom that would soon bring earthly freedom and power to the people of Israel (Acts 1:6). The martyrdom of Stephen and James (Acts 7:57-60; 12:2) may have come as a surprise. Where were the hundredfold rewards for them?