Earthly Gifts... Heavenly Rewards is a featured article from Genteel Girlhood, which is our website for encouraging young women. GG is a sister site to Titus2Ministry.com. I love the message it conveys--it's short and sweet, but says so much! We don't have to be a missionary in some far away land to impact the world for Christ, although that is a wonderful calling. ...We can impact the world by blessing those around us, which will in turn bless others and the ripple effect will continue on and our Christian influence will leave a legacy behind! ~Emilee

Earthly Gifts... Heavenly Rewards

A young girl, in one of those moments when the heart seems to overflow with devotion, wrote thus in her journal:--"If I dared, I would ask God why I am placed in the world; what have I to do? I know not; my days are idly spent, and I do not even regret them. ...If I might but do some good to myself, or another, if only for the short space of a minute each day!"

A few days later, when in a calmer mood she reread these lines, she added, "Why nothing is easier! I have but to give a cup of cold water to one of Christ's little ones."

Yes, even so small a gift as that, but given in God's Name, may be of service, and gives you the right to hope for a reward in heaven. Even less than that: a word of advice; something lent to another; a little vexation patiently borne; a prayer for a friend, offered to God; the fault or thoughtlessness of another repaired without his knowledge; God will recompense it all a thousand-fold!