A Life God Rewards

Becoming "new" in Christ is a wonderful beginning, but it isn't the end of pain or problems in our lives. It is the beginning of our facing up to them. Being a Christian involves a lifetime of hard work, dedicated study, and difficult decisions. Living the Christian life of faith means striving for holiness. Christ did not teach that a life of faith would be easy, but that the reward for endurance would be great. The Bible says, "put to death...whatever belongs to your earthly nature...since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed...in the image of its Creator...Work at it with all your heart...since you know you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward" (Colossians 3:5, 9-10, 23-24).

Billy Graham

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