Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against you? You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.
Mal. 3:13-18
There is a reward to you that fear the Lord, God knows that you have desires to be special before Him. He will make those that He ordained as jewels before Him, that has suffered for His name sake. Like Christ said, that great is your reward in heaven if they persecute you and say all manner of evil against you, for his namesake, for so persecuted the prophets that was before you, and they have a great reward in heaven for seeking the Lord. Don't give up hope that God sees your desire to Him, He will reward them that diligently seek Him..Amen.
