We all feel we’re special inside. Yeah, all of us. Given the choice between two pieces of pie, we’ll always choose the bigger piece. In cars, we’ll pick the one with the higher sticker price, if we can swing the deal. On vacation, of course we want the king bed, and if there’s a kitchenette, well, we want that thrown in for free.
No one picks the little room in the back with the view of the dumpster. After all, we deserve better. No way are we paying for that awful view.
We want the goods we deserve, the apartment with the fresh paint job, the patent leather pumps, the Vera Wang evening dress. Take second best? Not on your life!
So, what do we deserve? Hebrews 9:27 says that “it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.”
Judgment? What about that extra large slice of chocolate cake? After all, we’re the birthday boy! What’s all this about a judgment? Isn’t this about getting what we deserve?
See what 2 Timothy 2:15 tells us. “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”
So, what do we deserve? That Vera Wang? John 5:29 gives us an eye-opener. “And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.”
Clearly this message is not about patent leather pumps. This is about our souls.
But, it can be about those leather pumps, because if we put them before God and his plans for us, we are taking a great risk. Lucifer, also known as the evil one and the devil, put himself above God, and look what’s going to happen to him.
Revelation 20:10 tells us, “And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
It makes that dumpster view look pretty good about now, doesn’t it?
How can we avoid the devil’s fate? That answer can be found in Ephesians 2:8-9. “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
If we can follow through on that, we will truly get the goods we deserve. We will one day be in heaven with the Son and the Father, sharing in the gift of eternal life.
That’s way better than a king bed and a kitchenette, and we can take that to the bank.
We get what we deserve when we make Christ our all in all.
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