 I've run the race. I have kept the faith. Now watch this. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. It was not an issue of losing or gaining eternal life. It's a gift. It was a matter of reward and victory in life. For those of us who have trusted Christ as Savior, what's ahead? Heaven.