Heavenly Rewards

This spring, while teaching a theology class for people from our church and another church, the topic of heavenly rewards came up. While we could be certain that there are such rewards and that we are encouraged to seek them, it was difficult for us to come to a firm conclusion as to the precise nature of these heavenly rewards. Well

, on our vacation in Florida, at a Family Dollar store, my wife and I disovered exactly what these heavenly rewards are. Here is a picture.

Apparently, Heavenly Rewards are generic Girl Scout cookies. They come in the pictured flavor, as well as thin mint. While it was exciting to find an answer to to a perplexing theological question, I have to admit, after eating most of the box of Heavenly Rewards myself, that they were a bit disappointing.

However, I still hold out hope that naming these cookies Heavenly Rewards was just a lame attempt to sell more low quality cookies - and that the true heavenly rewards are infinitely better, making the sacrifices and the suffering that Jesus calls us to more than worth while (Romans 8:18).