Daily Reflection

There is one phrase Christians should never say: “What’s in it for me?” (there’s a lot in it for us—life itself!). But once we start asking that question, suspecting that God might have given inadequately, doubting when God tells us, “You are always with me, and all that is mine is yours,” then we have lost all perspective. When we focus on ourselves, we fail to see that “there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.” If we want to enter the joys of heaven, we need to keep our view on the other, rejoicing when the dead find life and the lost are found.