This morning I felt like discussing with a friend and I knew it will serve someone else.
My friend is doing all that can be done to put smiles on other people’s face. Working in the vineyard in the service of the Master.
Like many of us there’s that secret question: When will I be rewarded?
As innocent as this question is, it often leads to frustration and quitting because the kind of reward we are waiting for may never come.
Recently, I have some WhatsApp groups in which I’ve put in labour in upward of two years to encourage, motivate and inspire people. Then somebody crashed the groups.
I wanted to quit and take it easy. What’s the gain I asked myself. I do everything in the name of Christ and not a day comes that I asked for any kind of help or donation or what. What’s the gain?
What is the gain?
My wife was fast to tell me all the gains: As you’re committed to the things of God our lives have gotten better than when we were on our own terms. He rewards you know.
No contradictions she was right and it’s obvious. God rewards.
Beyond this: the morning after the WhatsApp groups were compromised, some came to chat me personally on one thing or the other – three beyond Nigeria shore. Then my wife said: you can’t ignore what you’re doing.
What is your gain following God, doing good and adding values? You may be asking.
I may not be able to answer you directly. But from personal experience as you create values God compensates, it only requires you to be able to see.
Last year I held a program which I singlehandedly funded because everybody thought it was my program, even the Christian Association that hosted it left it all for me. The same day I got delivery of my recent car right while in the program.
God rewards.
A friend of mine was seen as a no-do-well because of his commitment to a national project without anyone funding him.
Yesterday he told me how he received a gift of two-bedroom flat built in 48 days.
God rewards.
The biggest joy isn’t things we receive but the joy of being a co-labourer with Jesus.
There’s a joy beyond understanding. Is that not a good reward? Even beyond money and things, look around, Father rewards and he delays not (but in his own ways).
Don’t stop adding values. In his own way God will make all things beautiful in his time.
