Rewards in Heaven...
Gifts in heaven are not only awarded based on enduring the trials and tribulations of life, and your having trust and faith in God and Jesus that these trials are intended to benefit you as a believer, for God's greater glory, and to prepare you to serve God, but gifts will also be awarded according to your service to mankind in God's name. Your salvation is a gift by the grace of God, and your rewards are attained separate from God's grace, and dependent on your self sacrificing care and love for others. Matthew 25:31-46 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundat...