Virtue

What is virtue? By textbook definition, Virtue is morality. The ability to stay moral even though the circumstance gets tough. So, how are you virtuous? Do you seek the truth? Do you always do what is right? Are you always looking for God? These are all some of the things that we would do if we had virtue, however, being a virtuous person means knowing what is right and wrong. It means doing things the right way no matter how hard it can get. It means that you choose God’s way over your own. Today I will share with you what God has been instilling in my heart. This is by no means to say that I’m a virtuous person or that I’m bragging about what I am, but rather, I’m just sharing what God has been putting in my heart and how the Holy Spirit has helped me. Let’s start.

Truth

            I remember in proverbs, the bible says, let not truth forsake thee. The bible also says, that if you are truthful, you will find favor between both God and man. I’ll be honest with you guys, I am truthful because I want to be liked by both God and man. I want people to like me because I am a very friendly guy. I want the world to be my friend, not literally but you get what I mean. Ever since my pastor told me to be as honest as possible, I cannot stop telling the truth. I am honest even though it can hurt me because honesty is what God wants.

Willingness to do what is right

            God has put it in my heart to do what is right at all times. I may stumble from here and there, but God always has my back and he knows just how to correct me. Sometimes I find myself in bars, sometimes I find myself going to things that I shouldn’t be at, sometimes I find myself doing things that I shouldn’t do. However, I immediately apologize to God. I do wish to stay away from those things, but sometimes it’s just fun. The drinking, drugs, and cursing aren’t fun, but the music, friends, and activities are. However, as of lately God has been seriously convicting my heart about going out with these friends and I have been trying to put a stop on it. Thankfully, God is helping me.

The desire to pray

            I have been praying every day for almost three weeks now. When I pray, I also pray for a good chunk of time and it is effort less. Why? Because I have researched and prayed about how to develop my prayers because I want my prayers to be strong. I want my communication between the Lord and I to be in good standing. I understand that I should always be looking to listen to God’s voice, so that is when I need to pray because I want to hear what God is trying to say. God is powerful and God does speak, we just don’t listen.

            I look back now and I have realized that God was speaking to me all this time. God had always been looking out for me because I see that God had always answered my prayers. I just doubt too much. God always answers and I always doubt. I can’t help it and I know it’s a sin, I just pray that the Lord may forgive me.

I am learning new things

            I used to want the world. I used to want to glorify myself. I used to want money, fame, fortune, and power. However, I realized that God is the one that deserves all of that. God is the one that deserves glory, not me.

Just recently I started to pick up pool ball. I started practicing and trying really hard at pool, but I recently noticed that it is not going to take away my lust. It is not going to fill up my hole that I have in my heart. The only thing that is going to fill up my hold in my heart is God. You should see it because I have pool ball on the brain! I am always looking up videos as to how I can get better and how I can do this and that, but I’m not looking up how to get closer to God!

Here is a tip for all of you people out there. Satan does not care about what you substitute God with, the only thing he cares about is that you substitute God. Once Satan saw that guitar no longer substituted God for me, he moved on to different things, he moved on to work, then college, and then friends, and now pool ball. Satan just wants me to separate myself from God that is all he wants and I just realized that I fell into the trap.

I remember something that my pastor once told me in sermon. He said that some of us are excellent at guitar, some are excellent at math, and some are excellent at basketball or football or soccer. However, God wants us to be excellent with him. Let me say this a different way. God wants our spiritual life to be excellent because he knows that if our spiritual life is excellent, then there is no room for Satan to get into our lives. What do you do if you want to be excellent at something? You do it often, you do it a lot, you let it consume you and eventually develop an obsession with it. How great would it be if we were like that with God? We chased God until the ends of the earth and beyond, we would read his bible, and we would go to church on Wednesday, Saturdays, and Sundays. We would pray for hours on end and always look forward to what God would have to say. Then Satan could not get to us, but not because of us, but rather because God is the one who is guarding us.

Well that’s it for this blog post. I hope that you guys have found inspiration and hope in it. Please read your bible, go to church, pray, and above all else Love God with all your heart. Please like, share, comment, subscribe and I will see you all next time. German Gonzalez, signing out!