Bible Question: I have been with and away from God in some rather extreme fashions for the last six years. I want to make the commitment, but it's so hard to find a niche for my personality and the motivation and determination to stay on the right path. Can anyone make suggestions as to how one is supposed to commit wholeheartedly to their Christian walk? Please help! |
Bible Answer: Hello it sounds like you've been in some spiritual battles. And it also sounds like you took a couple powerful attacks from sin. Yet you still are struggling to survive, therefore you are still living. I hope you appreciate life with God better after having strayed from Him. As for your question it sounds similar to a biblical question that Jesus answered. He was asked by a crowd. "What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent." (john 6:29) The life we choose is not easy to follow, mainly because we are going against the nature we are born with. Still we seek a new nature, an existance in Christ. There is no short cut and it takes a lot of learning and unlearning. Here is what the word of God say's about developing virtues. "For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." ( 2 Peter 1:5-8) God's word has so much sound advice. All I can do is reenforce it. Your new life has begun with Christ maintain your Faith in Him and add on to it, one step at a time and I promise God shall always provide results. Do not be discouraged because we all have faced the discouragement that lives in our evil Hearts, yet our Hope is in Christ. Your Brother, Harold A. Molina |