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Is It So Wrong to Want Rewards?

8/29/2017

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In December, a dear woman in our church handed me a tin of Christmas treats she'd made for our family, and as I received them, I felt tears immediately welling up in my eyes.

She didn't know and couldn't have known, but I had been in need of encouragement--even something as simple as a tin of cookies, something that expressed I'd been thought of and that I was appreciated

I'd actually been fighting against this desire for weeks, fighting against it because I felt it had crossed a line into craving approval and validation. Craving reward. Maybe even a little self-glory. The craving was strong in its temptation; my faith felt fragile and weak.

Is it so wrong to want reward? Sometimes I just want to know from God that what I'm doing for Him matters. Sometimes I want to see the fruit of my labor and get to rejoice at how the Lord is moving in and around me. But then sometimes a desire for reward is more sinister. I feel in my bones the lure of applause, money, worldly success, comfort, ease, and self-glory. All temporary, all things that might provide immediate gratification.

So in regard to encouragement, which is it: right or wrong?
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My name is Christine Hoover. I am a church planting pastor's wife, a mom, an author, and a speaker who loves encouraging women with gospel truths. You can read more about me and what I write about here. 
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10/14/2020 06:33:39 pm

I am still wondering about the rewards that we deserve. We are all working hard to achieve those goals that we want. I know that it is hard to work every day and there are challenges that we meet every now and then but it is all worth it. We can be the person that we want to be if we will just be ready with the small things that are blocking the way. It will make us all a fighter. Let us not give up no matter how hard the situation is.

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