Each of us has a unique purpose in life, and we are all to do something to further God’s kingdom. God rewards us according to our faithfulness to the task, not the size of the task. Maybe you are ministering in obscurity. You are doing things nobody else knows you are doing to further the kingdom of God. Others may not know about you, but God sees what you are doing, and one day, He is going to reward you. The writer of Hebrews said in Hebrews 6:10, “For God is not unjust to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.” It is not the size of the task we have, it is not whether we minister in the limelight or behind the scenes–it is our faithfulness to the task that God rewards. Everything you do for Christ is recorded, and He does not cast a blind eye to it. He will reward you for your faithfulness. There are days in all of our lives when we wonder if the works we do really matter. We wonder if God notices the small things, the sacrificial things, and the ways that we serve Him that are difficult. God is paying attention, and He is taking note, not to count your good works unto salvation, because good works can in no way save anyone, but He is paying attention, taking note and will not forget to thank and reward you when you see Him in heaven. The reward from God to His faithful children is unique, and like many spiritual things, may be beyond our finite understanding. Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the righteous. It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite mind can comprehend the glory of the Paradise of God. Jesus concluded the Beatitudes, which open the Sermon on the Mount, with these words: Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you- Matt. 5:11-12. Being rewarded for faithfulness, however, is not the same as salvation by works. Who amongst us, or among any of the characters in the Bible, had works good enough to give them any merit before God? None, of course. That is the whole point of the cross. If we could have saved ourselves by works, Jesus never would have gone to the cross. Instead, it must be by grace. “And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise, grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work” Rom. 11:6. Rewards, instead, are the mere outworking of what God has done for us and in us.