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There was no reward of earthly prosperity for the Lord’s
faithfulness, but the reverse—privation and persecution—was
realized, even unto death. He was a “man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief”; the reproaches of them that reproached God fell upon
Him; though He was rich, for our sakes He became poor; so poor that
He said, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”... And the
servant is not above his Master: if they have persecuted Him they
will persecute us also; and the reproaches of them that reproached
Him will also fall upon us. The only present reward for which the
followers of Christ may look is the heartfelt manifestation of the
Lord’s love and approval. |
