For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. (Matthew 16:27)
Inside their high tech video headquarters, white-haired B. E. Langley and a handful of twentysomething employees gathered around a computer screen. They observed Billy Anhiester as he reached for a lingerie catalog, but tossed it into the trashcan.
“I’ll give him one hundred fifty thousand for that little decency,” Langley said.
The mouths of the three employees hung open. “Whoa, I’m definitely on the wrong side of this screen,” a technician said.
Langley was a billionaire philanthropist looking to distribute excess wealth. His staff had randomly selected Billy Anhiester. Without Billy’s knowledge, they monitored his life via electronic surveillance and assigned monetary rewards for each noble action. After thirty days, the Langley Foundation would announce how much Billy unwittingly earned. Langley hoped to spur the public to integrity when it thought no one was watching.
A technician read out Billy’s running total. “That makes one award of seventy-five k for mailing a charity donation and thirteen twenty-five k awards for polite words. You gave him seven hundred k when he refused to cheat a customer, and with what we just saw, we have two instances of one hundred fifty k for moral decisions. That’s one point four million so far with fourteen days remaining.”
“Yeah, but he’ll kick himself when he realizes what he could’ve had,” another tech said.
Billy’s scenario is fictitious, but ours is not. Our deeds are recorded and our lives mean more than we know.
Prayer: King Jesus, help me use life for your glory today.