There are no rewards without choices!
Our Heavenly Father longs to bless us as we choose the right path and make the right decisions.
Moses recorded by The Holy Spirit in Genesis chapter 1:
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our Image, according to Our Likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in His own Image; in the Image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
The word subdue means to take dominion or to control. This implies harnessing natural resources in an appropriate fashion., caring for the earth, cultivating and harvesting its fields, mining its resources, and releasing its potential to benefit GOD’S highest creation, humankind.
David recorded by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 8:
6 You have delegated to them rulership over all You have made, with everything under their authority, placing earth itself under the feet of Your Image-bearers.
7-8 All the created order and every living thing of the earth, sky, and sea—the wildest beasts and all that move in the paths of the sea—everything is in submission to Adam’s sons.
What is the point of subduing the earth if you only focus on yourself? Does Our Heavenly Father want to see a select few prosper at the expense of others? Was Abraham blessed just to build a personal kingdom while others suffered? No, he was blessed to serve mankind and expand the Kingdom of GOD on the earth.
You and I have a choice to do the same.
James wrote by The Holy Spirit in his epistle James chapter 2:
14 My dear brothers and sisters, what good is it if someone claims to have faith but demonstrates no good works to prove it? How could this kind of faith save anyone?
15 For example, if a brother or sister in the faith is poorly clothed and hungry
16 and you leave them saying, “Good-bye. I hope you stay warm and have plenty to eat,” but you don’t provide them with a coat or even a cup of soup, what good is your faith?
17 So then faith that doesn’t involve action is phony.
18 But someone might object and say, “One person has faith and another person has works.” Go ahead then and prove to me that you have faith without works and I will show you faith by my works as proof that I believe.
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
19 You can believe all you want that there is One True God, that’s wonderful! But even the demons know this and tremble with fear before HIM, yet they’re unchanged—they remain demons.
20 O feeble sons of Adam, do you need further evidence that faith divorced from good works is phony?
21 Wasn’t our ancestor Abraham found righteous before God because of his works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
22 Can’t you see how his action cooperated with his faith and by his action faith found its full expression?
23 So in this way the Scripture was fulfilled: Because Abraham believed God, his faith was exchanged for God’s righteousness. So he became known as the Lover (and friend) of God!
If we truly Love GOD, we will express our faith with action. When you give into Servias Ministries where we help kids in need with coats, clothes, food, and toiletries, you are expressing faith by your giving. FATHER credits you by your actions just like HE credits my family in our actions.
In the parable of the talents, as well as the widow’s mite, your intent is what FATHER is looking at, not the amount. Your reward is based on the choice you make given your resources.