Something you work for

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. (2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV)

 We who are resurrected and raised and raptured to be with the Lord at the end of the Tribulation in the first resurrection will get our rewards after the Rapture.
 But remember, rewards have nothing to do with your salvation. The rewards are something you work for and you earn by your faithfulness and your diligence and your hard work and your witness. Some Christians confuse the Bible verses on rewards and crowns and apply them to salvation. But you can’t work for your salvation; it is a free gift of God.
 Everybody who believes in and receives Jesus receives salvation, eternal life, and is going to heaven. But the crown, that’s something you work for. Jesus said, “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” (Revelation 2:10)
 The people who serve Him, like those in that hall of fame in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, all those great men and women of faith, God as good as says that He’s proud of them. He’s not ashamed to be called their God, because they’re pilgrims and strangers here and they seek a heavenly city, whose builder and maker is God. —David Brandt Berg [1]

 By all appearances, the crowns will be some sort of actual reward handed out to believers when Jesus returns again in the future. This will be at the Bema—the Judgment Seat of Christ. —Jeremy Myers

[1] Anchor The Crown of Life