GENESIS 15:1-6
God assured Abraham that He was Abraham's "exceeding great reward" (Gen. 15:1).
The king of Sodom had offered Abraham all the riches that Abraham and his servants
had brought back, but he turned them down. Notice that the tense is not past or future,
but present. Not "I was" or "I will be" but "I am"—"I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward" (v. 1).
We see from God's promise to be Abraham's reward that God never permits His children
to lose when they honor Him and seek His glory. God never leaves His child without
spiritual blessings after His child has taken a stand for the glory of God.
Although Abraham had no children at this time, his faith in the Lord is recorded in verse
6: "He believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness." Because of
Abraham's faith in God, he was able to look into the future and trust God for everything.
Ephesians 1:3 tells us that present-day believers have been blessed with "all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ." But we, too, must set our eyes on the future. We
must be those who look to their reward for glorifying God, rather than looking at the
temporal satisfactions of the present.
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether…. And in keeping of them
there is great reward (Ps. 19:9,11).
Theodore Epp
www.backtothebible.in