How to live a holy and self-sacrificing life for God
Holiness, we are invited into it and to experience it with God and we are allowed to through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Living a holy life is not just doing good things and helping those who need helping, it’s about sacrificing our time, desires, and things in order to do what is needed to be done. It means to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God and those who need us, doing what they need or want done as supposed to our desires. It means to die to ourselves and flesh in order to accomplish the things God needs us to accomplish in our lives. There are ways and steps to live holy as God wants us to live in accordance with his law and commandments in order to show us his love and will for our lives.
In life, we are to serve The Lord and to be holy for him in order to us in the plans that he has for us. In order to be used, we must remain humble, kind, loving, have faith, be disciplined, be at peace with each other, and worship God. These sound easy, however, can prove difficult since we are all human and have our own weaknesses and shortcomings to being to accomplish said things. We are told to worship The Lord in all of his beauty and splendor as we look upon what he has done in our lives and for us, having awe and mystical wonder in what he has created as well. In order to worship, we must make our plans around God’s plans for our lives, fitting our schedule around his since he cannot fit into ours. This might mean giving time doing something you wanted to do in order to complete the task that God has given you for the Kingdom.
Yes, this can and will be a very difficult task to do since we want to do what we desire to do, however, half the time what we desire to do isn’t the best or safest. A child might want to cross the road for something; however, you pull them back not because you don’t want them to have it or hate them; you do it because they don’t see or pay attention to the car that is coming down the road. God does the same with us, we might desire something right then and now, however, he might stop us in order to save us from ourselves. It’s after we see why he did something that we then appreciate all the things he does, most of the time, and then see his love in our lives. This is the humility, discipline, and love part of our relationship with God; to humble ourselves as such a child and know his love while being disciplined enough to follow his guidance and voice.
We can be at peace when he is guiding us and with us because he will lead down the right path for our lives, not giving us things that we are too difficult for us to handle. Its out of God’s faithfulness, guidance, and peace that we know and can rest assured that it is his responsibility to make us Holy. God is continuously working on us in order to get us ready for when we go home to him, while also doing the work that needs to be done through us to help other lost souls find him as their shepherd. Through this process of becoming holy like God, we are refined and defined as his children, being lead by their Father and obeying him in order to accomplish what needs to get done. We have God’s love and law in order to help us grow into better people, helping those who need it and guiding people who are blind to his love in order to find it and to see him. Through this, we are told be at peace with each other and to not bring each other, and anyone who isn’t against you is with and for you in your walk with Christ.
So, remember, living Holy isn’t something we can achieve at all by ourselves. It was done when Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior died on the cross of our sins, allowing us to be reconciled and in relationship with God. We are told and it is written that God will finish the work he started within us in order to make us the people whom he desires us to be. We are promised that he is with us and that nothing separates us from his love, no matter what for we are his children. So, give him everything and allow him to guide and love you, knowing that everything will be Okay. May God bless and keep you, Amen.