Let us invest in heaven (Part 3)
Verse of the day: Matthew 10:41 “Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward”
Like I said yesterday, anyone who’s kind to the poor lends to the Lord (Prov 19:17) or supplies his heavenly account.
Since the heavenly account is a spiritual account, its supply must be spiritual according to God’s rule. The account is not only supplied by giving to the poor but it is the way you give to them that matters. If we give to the poor without love, our offering is not accounted in heaven.
The word of God says: “If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing” (1 Cor 13:3)
The verse of the day shows how God is sensitive when someone cares for His servants. When someone financially or materially assists a servant or a work of God, he supplies his heavenly account and it allows him to share the reward. For example if you assists an evangelist who comes in your area for a crusade, you host him, you financially support the crusade and two hundred people give their lives to Jesus, you (you and the evangelist) will share the crown attached to that specific work even though you didn’t do anything spiritually (or didn’t go to preach). John wrote: “We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth” (3 John 8).
Nothing is more important to God’s eyes than when a sinner repents from his sins and becomes his child. Everyone is not evangelist or does not have the gift to lead souls to the Lord but you may not have the gift or the calling but you have financial means to support those who are called to do it.
There is a group of Christians who need someone to suggest them to contribute while there is another group who understood that the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence and violent people have been raiding it (Matthew 11:12). Through that scripture, I understood that heavenly blessings require a certain violence or aggressiveness. When we see a problem or a need in God’s work and we have necessary means to bring the solution, we shouldn’t hesitate to jump on it after being convicted (in prayer) because it’s really the right thing to do. It does not mean that sometime we may go to the wrong people thinking we are serving the Lord.
In the fourth part, I will talk about the law of sowing and reaping
Chris Ndikumana
