Customers keep coming back because of Rewards Programs. You make a purchase and get points for it and you can later use the points to purchase something else. You are hooked. You keep coming back because you get rewarded. It is a good idea because it benefits the customer and the business.
The principle of rewards is an old one. In fact, there is a statement in the Bible regarding rewards that perhaps some CEOs found. God is telling people in the Book of Hebrews that He will reward anyone who seeks Him. The eleventh chapter gives a long list of people who were rewarded for believing God.
There is one man who was rewarded in a most unusual way. There are only five verses about Enoc in Genesis. One verse tells of his birth. One verse tells how long he lived before fathering a son named Methuselah. Another verse tells a bit about his life after the birth of Methuselah, that he walked with God. That is interesting, because we can assume that the birth of this son brought about a change in Enoc's attitude toward God. The last verse about Enoc tells us that he walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Hebrews 11:5 gives more light about the 'taking'. It states that Enoc did not see death because he was pleasing to God. Enoc obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. Being 'taken up' had not happened before, at least to our knowledge. When Enoc obtained the witness that he pleased God, and we do not know what that witness was, he must have gotten an idea in his head. Maybe Enoc thought that it would be a nice thing if God would just zap him to heaven. Maybe he talked with God about this and from that conversation developed the faith that it would happen. It did.
There are some impossible things and God is the God of the impossible. I believe that God wants us to think of impossible things and believe Him for it. Mundane stuff is not God's area of expertise. Impossible stuff God relishes in doing. Do we limit God by leaning to our own understanding and not acknowledging Him? Do we settle for the mundane, seemingly safe way, the world's way and not give God a chance to glorify Himself?
The list in Hebrews is long of average people who believed God for the impossible. There were so many obstacles and giants and real problems that these people faced and, yet, they found favor with God and had impossible situations turn out for good because they believed God would do it.
"Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him." Hebrews 11:6
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