The Key

A Man went to work in a far away country, He worked for his entire life without payment until he got frustrated when he asked his boss he always told him “I will give you, your payment when the time is right.
One day, he woke up and he told his boss that he was tired of working without payment and wanted  to go home.
The boss gave him a box with a key inside as his payment. The man left with disappointment in his heart knowing all the life time he had worked for just a box of keys! What will he show to his family? and many other thoughts were the questions he pondered over as he went along.
Reaching a river side, he decided to throw the keys in the river and continue his journey amidst lots of frustration and great anxiety over the reaction of his family on his arrival with nothing tangible to show for his many years of working away from home!
Arriving home, he found his family waiting for him and a mansion close to where he left his former house.
Surprised, he asked whose house it was. His family told him his boss came every month since he started working to oversee the building of the house until it was finished but he never gave them the key because he wanted it to be a surprise to him.

He then remembered the keys he had thrown in the river and that he couldn't find them since the water had taken them away. He could not open the doors and the windows either because they were firmly secured!

Note:
Sometimes we think we have laboured for nothing when serving God, yet God has given us Jesus as a key to an everlasting life that we shall have a rest. He is a master key to unlock that problem, to fixing that mistake, to fulfilling that dream. People may say you are a mess but to God you are a message full of grace. His mercies comes new every morning. What will we gain to have everything but miss the kingdom of God.

Don't lose that KEY!

Concept Credit: Deacon David Gbogbo; The Church of Pentecost - Oyarifa District.