While
making changes in the way we live, what God needs from us is to also change not
only how we see life but also a change in our priorities, our relationships,
and everything else. It will sometime mean choosing a difficult path instead of
an easy one. This is to say, we need to live for the glory of God and God
alone. Will you live for your own goals, comfort and pleasure? Or will you live
the rest of your life for the glory of God. Knowing that the reward of God’s
glory is eternity. Many people hesitate when it comes to this issue of whether
to live for God or for them. I remember me, myself before when I would think
about giving up the party life. The fact of letting all that go made me terrified
and I would find myself living a double life. But the reason to why I thought
this way was because I thought that, that is where my joy and happiness came
from. I had convinced myself that it was the source of my happiness until I
learnt that there’s not true happiness within the earthly things and that only
true happiness and joy lays in the house of God. I pray for you that God helps
you make a better choice in your life which is to live for him because God will
give you what you need and even better. The bible says “Everything that goes
into a life of pleasing God had been miraculously given to us by getting to
know, personally, and intimately, the one who invites us to God”.
One night,
it was a Saturday morning. I told my cousin who was staying with us for her
holidays here in Rwanda. I told her to come with me to church the following day
and her response melted my heart and I was amazed by the honesty to it. She
told me, she wouldn’t come to church with me because God is not pleased with
her actions so she wouldn’t dare to walk into the house of the lord. Being too
deep into the earthly things had convinced her that she wasn’t good enough but
little did she know that God has a soft spot for sinners. First, you have to
believe that God loves you and that’s a fact. Believe you have a purpose.
Believe that God has chosen you to have a relationship with Jesus and for that,
he is ready to receive you, no matter what you’ve done in the past. God does
not hold grudges, God forgives and forgets. Second receive Jesus Christ as your
lord and savior and learn to listen to his guidance.
