Day 20 - Reward in Heaven

I don't have my book in front of me, so I'll have to add the verse later.

I have been thinking about this Dare all day.  I have been thinking about how worldly we are.  We don't even realize the ways.  I was talking to a young lady that I disciple about her journey with the Discipleship Dare and she had a moment last week where God asked her to get rid of some material possessions.  She said she stood there and cried as she was trying to discern whether or not this really was from God.  She took those items and they are now removed.  They were something that she felt that had a foothold (no matter how small) on her life that needed to go.

This morning, I woke up rather early.  I spent time thinking about various things and kept going back to the state of the closets in our home.  We have so much junk in them.  So, I got up and that's what I did today, I cleaned out the closets.  I threw away a lot of stuff and expired products.  I feel so much better now.  As I was journaling about it, God reminded me how "spiritual" this act was.  As our church is in the middle of a corporate fast, we are spending time purging and arranging the state of our spiritual souls.  In this same manner, this is an outward action reflecting the purging of my material possessions.

It reminded me, what am I collecting all this for?  If my reward is in Heaven, then material items are of no value to me.  I need to find material/emotional/physical items that are keeping me from walking the walk that God is calling me to walk.  These items only get in the way.

So today, I resolve to take the Dare to endure whatever necessary to gain my reward in Heaven!