You are God's treasure. God loves you. He has prepared you for this life. How can you enjoy your position in God to the fullest as you live your life everyday? How should you proceed? Lets us us look at it.
1. Love God
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
What are you looking for in life? Have you got it? Where are you hoping to find it? Hope, joy, peace, satisfaction, fulfillment, and contentment are found in the person of Jesus Christ. He is the way that will lead you to what you dearly want. It is He who gives the ability to find it and it is He that will lead you to it.
God’s formula is profound but very simple. Fear God, and keep His commandments. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. What do you desire that is not included in “all these things?” Love God. Fear Him. Follow Him and let Him take care of your business.
Read: Matthew 6:33
2. Vessel Meet for the Master’s Use
You are God’s vessel of choice. Serve Him today. Follow Him and serve this generation.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. 2 Timothy 2:20-21
You are alive today for God’s purpose. As God intricately knitted you in your mother’s womb, He was fashioning a vessel for His use. Your dimensions are exactly as God intended for your work.
Not everybody does what God ordains for him. Some choose their own path. They displease God and become vessels of dishonor. Christians who purge themselves from sin to separate themselves to God are prepared to be vessels of honor. They become men and women of honor and integrity.
Read: 2 Timothy 2:22
3. Do Your Part
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15
The best quality products on the market are coveted. They may be sought and bought for high prices. These products don’t just become. They require skill, time, effort, diligence, and consistency before they are presented as they are.
Christians whose lives are shining examples don’t just become. They are molded by God but they also play their part. They work at becoming approved servants of God. Remember, God is the yard stick. It is He who must tell whether you are approved or not. Such Christians take time to listen and to be with God. They follow diligently. Sometimes it means failing many times before they can attain God’s standards. They are refined. They are purged. In the final end, they are approved and not ashamed.
Will you do your part in order to attain God’s approval? Your success or failure depends on your willingness to do your part. You, too, can be God’s approved servant. Start today.
Read: Joshua 1:8
4. Seek What is Eternal
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4
You are a child of the kingdom. You are of royal descent. Nothing in this world will satisfy. Your heavenly Father, who cares and knows all you need, satisfies. When you yielded your life to Christ, you died to yourself. You were buried with Christ as He washed the sting of sin from your heart. You died to your old nature. You were resurrected to the newness of life in Him. The same power that raised Christ from the dead now lives in you.
For you to experience and live in victory, you have to set your heart and all its affections on what pleases Christ. It is a daily practice.
Read: Colossians 3: 5-9
5. Put on Christ
But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ephesians 4:20-24
Christ does not want you to walk this Christian journey alone. You cannot make it. He empowers us to walk and live in victory. He instructs us daily as He leads us to this victory. Just follow and obey.
Even after salvation, you remain with your fleshly body which does not get born again. Your flesh wars against the things of God. In order to grow and have victory, you have to say no to sinful inclinations daily as you subdue them. Sin is rottenness that corrupts the heart and suppresses the yearnings of the spirit. Embrace Christ’s teaching and make it your daily pursuit.
Read: Ephesians 4:25-32