Our desire for a heavenly reward will lose its sense of being a selfish desire as we experience inklings of it. As our desire for heaven's reward grows, our fear of it being a selfish, impure motive will die way. In fact, it will seem increasing absurd that our desire for heaven be anything other than the purest of motive. But this won't be our experience overnight; it won't happen in a day any more than "poetry replaces grammar, music replaces scales, grace replaces law, longing transforms obedience." It happens for most of us "gradually as the tide lifts a grounded ship."
"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory" Col. 3:1-4
Do you long to appear with Christ in glory? Isn't that the purest of longing -- to know Christ and be known by Him in glory. A staggering promise of reward.
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