What's More Important-- Your Name, Or Where It Is Written?

"....Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."  (Luke 10:20)

Today's church is concerned more about ministry than Heaven.  I guess this "drive-through" generation thinks that Heaven is too "pie in the sky," too "intangible."  Their ministry is now, and for so many, it's their identity; it's who they are.  In our text, it was not the casting out of demons which was the problem.  Jesus sent them to do that.  It's what motivated their rejoicing.

Maybe church folk today would be a little less apprehensive and a little more relaxed in life if they let the rejoicing over their "ministry" to our Heavenly Father.  The Biblical exhortation is for all of us today--- "Should you then seek great things for yourself?  Seek them not....I will let you escape with your life."  Rejoice in that.

Father, in Jesus' Name, help me to concentrate more on where my name is written than on my name.  Amen.




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