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Reward for Soul Winners, December 30
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars
for ever and ever.
Daniel 12:3
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In our life here, earthly, sin-restricted though it is, the greatest joy
and the highest education are in service. And in the future state, un-
trammeled by the limitations of sinful humanity, it is in service that our
greatest joy and our highest education will be found.
“If any man’s work abide ..., he shall receive a reward.”
1 Corinthi-
ans 3:14
. Glorious will be the reward bestowed when the faithful work-
ers gather about the throne of God and of the Lamb.... They have been
partakers with Christ in His sufferings, they have been workers together
with Him in the plan of redemption, and they are partakers with Him
in the joy of seeing souls saved in the kingdom of God, there to praise
God through all eternity.
A Christian once said that when he reached heaven he expected to
meet with three causes of wonder. He would wonder to find some that
he did not expect to see there. He would wonder not to see some that he
expected to meet, and, lastly, he would wonder most to find so unworthy
a sinner as himself in the Paradise of God. Many who have stood in
high places as Christians upon earth will not be found with the happy
throng that shall surround the throne. Those who have had knowledge
and talent, and yet have delighted in controversy and unholy strife, will
not have a place with the redeemed.... They desired to do some great
work, that they might be admired and flattered by men, but their names
were not written in the Lamb’s book of life. “I know you not,” are the
sad words that Christ addresses to such. But those whose lives were
made beautiful by little acts of kindness, by tender words of affection
and sympathy, whose hearts recoiled from strife and contention, who
never did any great work in order to be lauded of men, these are found
recorded in the Lamb’s book of life. Though the world counted them as
insignificant, they are approved of God before the assembled universe.
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