Have you ever been engaged in a position where you were fully paid-up front for your services and then given benefits upon its ending?  Additionally, no penalties were imposed on you for being late or for not showing up at all or for not completing your commitment and/or assignment. The answer, of course, is absolutely YES, if you have served as a volunteer in ministry at your church or another place of worship.  God gives us everything: health, strength, intellect, financial and other resources as well as access to salvation and eternal life. Since, as the hymn says, "Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe," then whatever we do as kingdom building ministries in earthly venues is just in response to His grace and radical generosity.  Yet, when we fall short of loving God with our whole heart, strength, and mind and do not love our neighbors as ourselves, we still are loved and forgiven.   When we fail to "do justice, and love kindness or walk humbly with our God" we are still blessed.