Jesus our Reward

Call to Prayer

Title: Jesus our Reward.

By: Daniel Peter

Date: 09.08.2023

to those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life;  Romans 2:7 NASB2020.

After Abraham fought and conquered the company of nations that had conquered Sodom and Gomorrah and it’s surrounding nations in order to rescue his nephew Lot (Gen. 14), God came to Abraham and introduced Himself as his shield and his exceedingly great reward (Gen. 15:1). God is a reward, and He gives the gift of Himself as a reward to them that continue in well doing.

Though at salvation we received Christ into our spirit, but we are only empowered to manifest Him when we have proven ourselves faithful to Him by obedience. The manifestation of Christ goes beyond the manifestation of the gifts of the spirit, but the very nature and essence of God. To see this, after God introduced Himself as Abraham’s exceeding great reward (Gen. 15:1), the conversation that ensued afterwards was where God promised Abraham a child (Gen. 15:4-6). It should be noted that this promise was not just that Abraham would be a father in the natural, but a spiritual father to many, who were represented as stars in that conversion (Gen. 14:5). In other words, God was engracing Abraham to manifest as a father of spirits just like God, who is the father of spirits (Heb. 12:9). Abraham manifested a dimension of God because He acted in love.

Apart from spiritual fatherhood, there are other dimensions of God that we are given access to as we continue in well doing (walking in love), and the Bible summed this as “glory, honour and immortality (Rom. 2:7)”; all we behold in God. To come into the fullness of this reality, the key to it is to comprehend the full dimensions of love, for scriptures says “… I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God “(Eph. 3:17‭-‬19 NIV).

In summary, the fullness of God is the reward given to those who continue in well doing, and our comprehension of the commandment of love determines to a large extent how much of it we will walk in.

Prayer Point

Let’s thank God for His word today. Let’s ask Him to help us to continue in well doing.