Pleasing the Lord in every aspect of our life

To please God and to conduct ourselves and behave as God expects us, we need a knowledge of the Will of God. The only way we are going to please the Lord is if we are clear about what God wants from us.

That is why it is so important that we study the Word of the Lord because all the knowledge we need about what the Will of God is is codified in the Bible. But also God through His Holy Spirit illuminates us internally and gives us that wisdom and that discernment of what He wants for us in each decision and in each moment of our lives. That is why we have to be in continuous communion and communication with the Holy Spirit so that God is continually correcting us and focusing on His Will in every decision, every circumstance that we have to deal with or with which we have to relate.

So this idea is interesting that we need this revelation from God but it is to please Him and to behave as is worthy of the Lord. That is talking to me about the importance of holiness in the Christian life as well. God expects that whatever knowledge we gain will manifest itself in a life that is pleasing to Him. So many believers believe that the Christian life is a matter of simply making a profession of faith for Jesus Christ and then living carelessly and committing all kinds of mistakes and sins. Because after all, if we are already saved in Jesus Christ and God saves us and understands us, why worry so much about the way we live.

It is important to note this continual insistence in the writings of the Apostle Paul and other apostles that we are called to a high life, a life of exemplary behavior. Paul puts it in terms of "as is worthy of the Lord" in other words the Lord Jesus Christ deserves the highest level of behavior and God expects that when we enter His ways we will put aside all those practices, those customs, those habits, those mental patterns that do not reflect the character and values of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If we are true followers of Him we have to walk as He walked says the Word. We have to think like He thinks, we have to feel like He feels, and we have to hate what He hates and love what He loves. That's what knowledge is for, that's what God's revelation is for. It is not simply to inflate ourselves intellectually and to accumulate a quantity of theological or intellectual knowledge or to simply carry out external or empty rites but it is to live a life that pleases the Lord and is worthy of Him, that reflects the values of faith. .

By means of that simple expression "so that you may walk worthy of the Lord" Paul is referring precisely to that life of holiness, that life of exemplary behavior. And he says: pleasing him in everything. Our goal should be to please the Lord in every aspect of our lives. Our marriage, how we treat our spouse. Our paternity or maternity, how we relate to our children, what kind of parents we are, if we exemplify generosity, detachment, forgiveness, compassion, patience.

These are the values that characterize Jesus Christ and they are the values that please Him and they are the values that we then have to adopt in our lives and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us with the knowledge that allows us to live in that exemplary way. So may God, through this meditation, impregnate us with that central idea that the knowledge of God and the interventions of the Holy Spirit is to make us exemplary men and women that in everything we do we think, let's say, we exemplify the character of Jesus and let's be nice to Him. God bless you and until our next meditation.