Our Soul's Reward
As has happened several times before, I was recently struck in a new way by a familiar lyric in a song we often sing on Sunday mornings. We will stand as children of the promise We will fix our eyes on Him our soul’s reward Till the race is finished and the work is done We’ll walk by faith and not by sight (https://store.gettymusic.com/us/song/by-faith/) It was the idea of the Lord Himself being our soul's reward that kind of took me aback. I think it's probably because, like many of you, I have been feeling very discouraged about what constitutes "reward" from a worldly point of view. Reward in the verb tense means to receive what one deserves. This can be in the positive sense or the negative and depending on which side of the social spectrum you fall, opinions vary widely. What do we rightly deserve? Well, in one view, it seems to be true that any amount of distress in one's life deserves to be rewarded with whatever will eradicate it in the quickest way poss