And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. Matt. 19:29
One of the tensions of the Christian life is that we live in one place, but our true home is in another. You can see this tension when Christians treat the church like a bunker and try to escape the world. A better way to express the tension would be to look forward to eternal life while embracing where God has placed us now.
Faithfully anticipating our inheritance rather than demanding it right now is both a mark of maturity and faith. It allows eternal life its proper place as a motivator in our hearts.
But what about the hundredfold...Turns out it's another tension in Christian life: We should be aching for God’s promised eternal reward, but we should also be selfless like Jesus.
The solution? Our reward is God himself.
Though heaven is filled with beautiful things, it is only the place
where we will enjoy our eternal reward. Whatever we desire now should
be considered in light of our eternal reward, God himself.... He is our portion.
Remember to look at the long-term. Let the motivation of eternal rewards give you a new
view of the situation God has put you in--and use it to glorify Him.
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