“These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes.”

Sainthood is often cloaked in lowliness and anonymity. Most of us will just go along, doing our best each day to love God and neighbor, unrecognized and often unthanked. Like that mysterious 144,000 (biblical number for perfect, complete or full count of those to be saved), and like the poor widow with her two small coins, we aren’t getting our names up in lights here on this earth. Our first clue may come when, at the moment of our death, we hear the one Voice we have waited and longed for all our lives say to us, “Well done! Welcome home. I’m so happy to see you!”

“Lord, grant us the grace to see you, love you and follow you more closely day by day.”

- from preacherexchange.com