No condemnation now i dread
We get so caught up in stuff, ya know? we actually really do spend so much time beating ourselves up, going on about how much someone else has hurt us and about all the many things that can go wrong and do go wrong and are wrong with every single possible thing..............when we have been handed the keys. we have been handed the weapons and we have been and are loved, sanctified and forgiven. no amount of moaning or complaining changes the fact that we go to be with our Father. but what would stop the moaning and the complaining?
the fact that at the end, everybody gets judged and all the secrets of men are made known? people that you know will go to hell and you may well have been the only Bible they will ever read? will your sour disposition put them off the whole Christainity thing or make them think that our Jesus isnt worth knowing?
all the pains and sufferings of this present time will vanish! in fact they wont even be a memory for you! the bigger picture will be clear and im pretty sure ill be kicking myself for not doing more - in heaven we are with God we dont serve Him anymore but isnt the serving part such a frigging priviliege!!!!!
christains receive rewards! 'for we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.' 2cor 5 v10.
'look to yourselves, that we do not lose the things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.' 2john v8.
i dont want to lose what 'ive worked for', by the grace of God. i so desire to receive a full reward and to me that means running the race with endurance, looking always onto Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith.
' do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it...an imperishable crown. Therefore i run thus, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, not as one who beats the air. But i discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, lest when i have preached to others i myself should become disqualified.' 1cor 9 v24-7