However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” Luke 10:20
When the seventy-two disciples returned with joy from their mission, Jesus warned them that the source of their joy should come not from the visible results of the Spirit’s power, but the Holy Spirit Himself, who has sealed for Christ, and written our name in Heaven.
We are called to embrace God’s kind of lifestyle. Many are called but few are chosen. Who are the chosen? The chosen are those who have the names written in the book of life, because they believe in Christ for salvation’s sake.
“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26
This Scripture warns us that those whose lives and focus are centred only on selfish, classic, and material things, in complete neglect of eternity – a large slice of life will pass them by. Treasures on earth have their own habit of disappointing their beneficiaries as they can only enrich us temporally whereas the blessings of Heaven enrich the believing souls for eternity.
We must be spiritually inclined to pursue the things of Heaven; that is why the Bible compels us in 2 Corinthians 4:18 to look at those things that are eternal. In other words, to have our name written in the book of life in Heaven, we must seek fist the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. When we do, then we shall be given what we have not asked for – for the Father in Heaven knows what we need before we ask.
Let these words of Jesus encourage you to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness, rather than earthly fame and recognition because it is in Heaven that your name is written forever.
