As we get older, we get to instill an attitude to ourselves that would determine the choices that we are going to have in our daily lives. As we grow older, we get to turn ourselves to someone that could be good or bad. Do we take enough time to see what we are becoming as we live our lives? How can we see that person that we are becoming? Are we determined to be a good person for ourselves, for our love ones, and for God?
To have an idea of what we are becoming, we just have to see ourselves every day. Instead of seeing others, instead of being focused on happiness that would last for a while, we just have to be focused on the decisions we make every moment in every circumstance. If we choose to be good persons, we just have to include God in every decision that we will make regardless how small it is. Many of us have encountered the saying that goes: thoughts create actions, actions can give us habits, and habits can form our personality. This is really true and it is really sad that many people choose to ignore this fact and so end up transforming themselves into someone weak on temptations.
There will be times that being bad and doing what is immoral will seem to be better than doing what is good. There will be a lot of times that bad people will seem to be happier. We are going to meet many people in our lives. I think that we are going to meet more people that choose to succumb to their weaknesses than people who will choose to be strong and try hard to stop the bad things that they are doing. With these, being good seems to be really hard to do. It is hard, yes, but only if we have not understood yet what really there is in being a good person and happy with God.
A bad person chooses things that provide happiness that last for a while. He chooses to have sex with other persons even though he is committed to someone else just because he feels like doing it. He did not just get a happiness that would last for a short time. He did not just undermine the essence of making love with his lover. Also, he started making himself into someone that is used to having sex with many people at the same time, thus, making his body, his attitude about relationship, his life, all more dishonorable. If he understands what being a good person and happy with God is, he will think and ask God what will bring him lasting joy. He will think what the consequences of his actions are. If he will think of the consequences of his actions, he will realize that if he has sexed someone other than the person he is committed to, he will weaken the intimacy and the essence of his relationship with his lover. If he includes God in his actions, he will stay faithful because he knows that being good would bring him lasting joy.
If we think with God we are going to understand what really there is in being a good person and happy with Him. If we think with God we are going to experience joys that would last a lifetime. If we think with God we are going to see what the joys He has in store for us are. And once we have realized and understood those joys, we don’t even have to try hard being good and think with God… doing what’s good and talking with God will just like breathing to us.
Lucky are those people who have a habit of including God in their decisions, because they are the people who have self-respect, who have deeper love for their love ones, who have a helpful relationship with their friends, and who have lives that have a purpose… a purpose that is so good, anyone who understands, could die for it.
There is a God. He is there not only when we need help. He is there to guide us every step of the way. The question is: Are you willing enough to be a good person and know how wonderful it is like walking with Him?
