God never shortchanges us

due to my 15 hour nap just now, i'm still quite awake now. i had dinner with T earlier and still remembered something he said.

we were talking about his job. to put it in a nutshell, he has such a good offer from his boss to ask him to stay in his current company, i *almost* can't believe it. with fewer working hours, higher perks and unbelievable pay for the amount of work he does. i asked him how he did it.
he agreed that he had added value to the company - saved the company some money, cut the boss's burden, acted as an office counsellor, but i think that many of us in our current jobs also do this to a certain extent. he said that his boss had hired him on the basis that he had been to peru for 4 years - he believed T would be more mature than other singaporeans based on this. he was also willing to let T take some time off from work to do some translation which T said was to benefit the poor.

but then it still doesn't add up -- to me. many pple would be willing to take T's job for 2/3 of what he's getting, didn't the boss consider that? of course there aren't that many in T's line of work, but they all work twice as hard as he does without the pay & perks, etc.. why then is T so high in his boss's favour that he seems to want to keep T at *almost* all costs?
T noted that he was not the only one to have experienced this, that another bro G who had come back from Ecuador also had a great job offer upon his return. he recalled the times when finance was very tight while they were setting up a church in peru, but how God never failed them. i had heard these stories before... i also know G had a financially tight time when he went to a hospital in ecuador.

what is the moral here? i think that it's when one steps out in faith and obedience and perseveres through hard times for Godly purposes that one's capacity for God's blessings increases. i also recall a phrase saying that God's people doing God's work in God's way will never lack God's resources. above that God said that those who honour Him He will honour (1 sam 2:30), and that in the last days there will be a distinction between those who serve Him and those who do not (mal 3:18).
the challenge for us remains to give ourselves fully to the work of God (1 cor 15:58), and to do it with a pure heart (Ps 73:1, Mat 5:8), so that above all God is glorified.