about being faithful to God

A person is faithful to God in their life by attending church, by tending to the needs of others before tending to their own needs, and by living every minute as if the existing minute is their last. We are all expected by God to be a blessing to His work upon the earth. In a way, one could say God is jealous, but God is not jealous in the human sense of the word. For God is jealous not for His own benefit, but for our benefit. We are all His creation. When we are willing to put aside or turn away from our fallen sinfulness in favor of kneeling at the foot of the Cross of Christ, God is glorified.

What must not be lost upon us is that in addition to God being glorified when we repent or turn away from our sin, our own lives are renewed, restored, reinvigorated, and redeemed. For in turning away from our sinfulness, the greatest benefit is not necessarily to God. The greatest benefit of our repentance goes to us. The greatest benefit we receive from Christ is a new life from Him. Our new life from Christ will never end, never terminate, and in the end, there is no end…for each of us who have accepted Christ as Savior, there is in the end a glorious new beginning in Heaven.