Subject: FW: Short devotion: "Motives of the Heart"
"Motives of the
Heart"
Now if any man build upon this foundation
gold,
silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Every man's work shall be
made manifest:
for the day shall declare it, because it shall
be
revealed by fire; and the fire shall try
every man's work of what sort it
is.
If any man's work abide which he hath
built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned,
he shall suffer
loss: but he himself
shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
I
Corinthians 3:12-15
Today, we are going to look at our motives and the
rewards
we will receive accordingly in heaven. While our motives
(works/actions) will be judged as Christians, and wrong
motives will
reap no rewards, there will be rewards for those
things done from a
pure/right heart (see II Corinthians 5:10).
I want to make it clear that
this judgment of our motives will
NOT affect our salvation or entrance into
heaven, but is an
evaluation of our heart motives and rewards accordingly.
We should know that when we stand before God, before
Jesus Christ,
that our works/actions do not need to be
wood, hay, and stubble, those
things which merely come
down to what we did in our strength, for our own
glory,
what we did to be recognized and to get the approval of
man. It
is those things, that when they are tried by the
fire of God - wood, hay,
and stubble - will burn up.
Those things that are of gold, silver, and
precious stones
are the things that we did out of a right motive and pure
heart,
the things we did in obedience to the Lord and for God's
glory.
If we have that which is of gold, silver, and precious
stones, that,
too, will be tried by the fire of God; but those
are the things that will
last into eternity.
This is my prayer, this is my heart cry, that we
would be
able to stand before God with not wood, hay, and stubble,
but
gold, silver, and precious stones.
Saints, may we be careful, may we
guard our hearts,
and our motives so all that we do, may be for one
purpose and that is for the glory of God.
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