BK's Korner, 4/4/2022

BK’S KORNER
So, the older I get the more nostalgic I seem to be. Yesterday I had a memory from my childhood during our morning worship service.  It was kind of silly really, but still a memory was triggered.

It was during the song “The Old Rugged Cross”,  there’s part of a verse in that song that says, “…til my trophies at last I lay down.”  I can remember as a young child singing that song and lamenting the fact that I had no trophy of any kind, for anything.  I desperately desired to have a trophy. 

I remember the day I finally got one.  It was for a pee wee type of football team that I was on. We got a trophy.  I could finally sing the old rugged cross and know I had a trophy.  Oh there were more trophies through the years.  I honestly don’t even know where they are now.  If they are not at my parent’s house then I probably just threw them away.  They really didn’t mean anything. 

So I began yesterday to think about spiritual trophies.  Those are the kind of trophies a person really should desire. Those are the ones we should strive for. Often Paul talks about receiving “crowns”.  These are our spiritual rewards and trophies. I remembered a verse from the Apostle Paul.   1 Thessalonians 2:19-20, “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? For you are our glory and joy.”

You see our spiritual trophies are those people to whom we have ministered in the name of Jesus. People in whose life we have made a difference. My one prayer is that at the end of my life, at least one person can say I know Jesus because of BK.  Someone to be able to say I walk closer to God because of BK.  My life was somehow made better because the Lord worked through BK.  That is the kind of trophy I should desire.  That is the kind of reward I should strive for. That is the trophy I should lay down at the foot of that Old Rugged Cross. 

See you all Wednesday and Sunday.
Get out there and Faith the Week.

Love ya, BK