THE REWARDS OF MEN CAN WAIT

Matthew 6:1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

There is a very specific sequence of activities here aiming to achieve a particular outcome: ‘practicing your righteousness with the intention of getting noticed by men.’ The reason is because being noticed is one way to be rewarded.

Often, people who are unseen are not rewarded regardless of the gifts they bear. For a character like Joseph, Pharoah who had the capacity to reward or acknowledge him did not know about his gift of interpreting dreams until the butler mentioned him. But preceding this, He had already been rewarded by God for his purity in the house of Potiphar.

Hence, the sequence is for God to reward first, and that puts you in the frame to receive human rewards. Man rewards only for what is seen, but God who sees all, rewards even for the things men have not seen. What God applaudes may not seem relevant in the eyes of men.

Here is the drill: ‘God does not need eternity to do what is eternal’. Making you visible is not a hard thing to do, but your focus should to be rewarded by God and not become excited by the rewards of men. An applause from men does not mean God is clapping too, but when God applauds you, it’s only a matter of time before men do the same. So let the applause of men wait.

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