God is a rewarder

Heb 11:6

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

Faith has what I call a baseline, by which one can determine if you are in faith or not. Our text for today reveals that the faith that pleases God is this that you believe that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. 

This means if you do not believe God is

a rewarder, you are not operating in the faith that pleases God. What does it mean that God is a rewarder? Simply put, it means being with God or serving God will bring profit to your life, will improve you, do you good and add to you. Now you have to have that settled in your heart. 

The other side of not having that settled is that you will say things like God made me sick to teach me a lesson or God took my loved one away, etc. Or say like Job outrightly:

“What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.” (Job 34:7-9)

Let me bring it home to you. Maybe you have said things like, “since I came to know Christ my life has gone from good to bad, bad to worse”. Such statements will put out of sync with God. You see, you have a choice about coming to God, but when you come, you MUST believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Anything less will put you outside of faith.

CONFESSION: GOD IS MY REWARDER AND MY EXCEEDING GREAT REWARD. I WILL NOT SERVE GOD IN VAIN. MY LABOUR OF LOVE SHALL BE REWARDED.