Feeling Unappreciated?

So you’ve been working overtime, forced to put in extra hours on the job while others spend lesser time and still get their job done. It really taxes you mentally and emotionally. There are times when you remembered that you are serving God through your secular job, so you mustered the effort to glorify Him. Then there are times when you seem to be running on empty and can’t see the reason why you’re toiling away without recognition.

Well, here’s a comforting thought for you: God acknowledges your effort and they will be rewarded in full when we enter His kingdom someday. So store up treasures in heaven that rust and moths cannot destroy. For where your treasure lies, there your heart will be also.

Ruth 2:11-13 (NKJV)

11 And Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully reported to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before. 12 The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”

13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for you have comforted me, and have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants.”

2 Samuel 22 (NKJV)

Praise for God’s Deliverance

17 “He sent from above, He took me,

He drew me out of many waters.

18 He delivered me from my strong enemy,

From those who hated me;

For they were too strong for me.

19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

But the Lord was my support.

20 He also brought me out into a broad place;

He delivered me because He delighted in me.

21 “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;

According to the cleanness of my hands

He has recompensed me.

22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,

And have not wickedly departed from my God.

23 For all His judgments were before me;

And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

24 I was also blameless before Him,

And I kept myself from my iniquity.

25 Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,

According to my cleanness in His eyes.[d]

2 Chronicles 15:6-8 (NKJV)

6 So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.7 But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!”

8 And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded[a] the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim; and he restored the altar of the Lord that was before the vestibule of the Lord.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

1 Corinthians 3:8

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Colossians 3:23-25 (NKJV)

23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for[a] you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

Revelation 11:16-19 (NKJV)

16 And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying:

“We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty,

The One who is and who was and who is to come,[a]

Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,

And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,

And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,

And those who fear Your name, small and great,

And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Revelation 22:11-13 (NKJV)

11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous[a] still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Jesus Testifies to the Churches

12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”[b]

Your lifeline is like a never-ending rope. First comes a short portion called life; then comes eternity. Why worry about the small portion, when you have “eternity” to think about? Often, people call me a pessimist for asking, “What’s the worst that could happen? Death?” What’s so terrifying about death when Jesus already overcame it?

Luke 12:28

If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?

Philippians 4:5-7 (NKJV)

5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.