After a lifetime in education, self-proclaimed golf nut and middle school principal Chelsa Holder retired from working with children. Her parents lived into their nineties, she was healthy, and she looked forward to a long retirement playing the golf courses of her dreams.
She wasn’t even sixty, and her golden years seemed endless.
Within a handful of those years, the gold tarnished as she was diagnosed with cancer. A great crowd of witnesses soon gathered at her beloved church to sing her praises as she was laid in the ground.
Did a life well-lived deserve such a frustrating reward?
Now let’s turn to Jesus. He was the son of a god, the great Jehovah. Yet he was ostracized while on the earth, battered by weapons of torture, and hung high on a cross to die a painful and prolonged death.
Did his life well-lived deserve such a frustrating reward?
However, let’s look deeper. Was death his reward, or was there something greater in the works?
Mark 16:19 reveals the last moments of Jesus’ time on earth. We read that after Jesus gave the Great Commission unto the disciples, he was received into heaven, and he sat on the right hand of God.
If Jesus’ reward was greater than the death he suffered while on this earth, did Chelsa Holder also have such a reward? She was active in her church, a stalwart believer, and a committed Christian who shared her faith with anyone who would listen.
Chelsa Holder was the hand of God to anyone who came into contact with her.
Where is this retired educator today? In the ground, no more than a memory to those who knew her? Or is she sitting on the right hand of God?
Ephesians 2:6 tells us we are raised up to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. If Christ sits at the right hand of the Father, then we can surely expect to be at his side.
There is no doubt Chelsa Holder sits there today.
Our Greatest Reward is not an earthly one. It is to be received at the right hand of the Father, for we will reside with him for all eternity.
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