Sunday, August 23rd
Jesus said to His Disciples, "The last will be first and the first last."
Matt. 20:16

There is no first or last within the Father's Kingdom, nor is the law of nicely calculated less or more accepted. The Father's love is absolute and unconditional. So must it be for all who call Him Lord.

The renegade who called to Me I brought into the Father's Kingdom as he besought Me with His dying breath. It is the Father's pleasure to bestow His Kingdom on all who seek it at any point or place within their lives. And those who have the joy and satisfaction of perceiving His will and loving purpose are rewarded by that knowledge as they live and work and suffer in its challenge and its power.

Loving commitment to the Heavenly Father and obedience to His will as it is perceived and known is its own reward. And all who come to Him when all is ended in the power of My saving, sanctifying love are one in love and joy and praise and thankfulness.