Many of us want to look good in front of others. I want to be beloved by the people around us. Don’t you desire the same thing? I bet you do! We want NOW to be pleasant to the ones that see us. And more than this we want the people to make us feel better. We want to be appreciated. How can we achieve this?
There are 2 ways that lead to success. To be loved by the people, they should know about you. If nobody knows you, how should they appreciate you? You have be in the position where you can be seen. But is it that important to be seen? This is to the popular way. It consists in promises, great words, throwing the bait and get the fish. It is the path where you promise things, but you never actually fulfill them. Then you have to do what you said to promise another thing. And so on, and on and on. But the wickedness has short legs. Most definitely, it would work for you from the start. People like to be given something and more than that to live with the dream. But on long term, if a dream is feed only with other dreams, and no facts, it will die.
So what is the alternative? If unfulfilled promises do not really work on a long term, than what does? The key element is to be righteously. What does it mean to be righteous? Let’s look at some examples, of people that worked to be this way.
I know a good history book. It tells us real stories from the beginning of the men kind. It even tells the future, not only the past. One of the first man that the Bible states as a righteous man was Noah (Genesis 6:9). It says that in order to be righteous, you have to be blameless. You have to live your life in the fear of God. This is not the fear that you’ll get strike down by a lightning. But it consists in accepting that there is someone greater than all. God is love, He is good, the Lord means only good things for His creation. So, the fear of God means that you know how He is and you want to resemble with Him, to be like Him. You would want the things that characterize God to distinguish you as well. So, be blameless!
I just asked from you something impossible. You can not be blameless by your own strength. Our life seems to be a continuous struggle. But, we can have help. We can have help from above if we really want it and seek it. I have to do my best while doing it together with my God. How can I do that? How can you achieve that? Let’s look further on the Good Book. In Genesis 15:6 we see Abram. It says that Abram was credited as righteous by God. Wow! But how was that possible? If we read the first part of the verse we see that Abram believed in God. That’s it! Believing is an act of will and faith. You can chose to believe or not, to have faith or not.
So how does this work? To see the path let’s look at the following bible passage: 3The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me, When one rules over men righteously, ruling in the fear of God, 4He dawns on them like the morning light when the sun rises on a cloudless morning, when the tender grass springs out of the earth through clear shining after rain.2 Samuel 23:3-4
What is the secret of being beloved by the people? It is to do the will of God. This means to be righteous, and all you do to be done in fear of God. For that, you have to choose to believe in Him, to accept God to rule your life and guide you. Because alone, you will not succeed. He will do the rest. Trust in the Lord!
What about NOW? Well, that meas that you have to trust your life in the Lord now. The effect will not be seen today and neither tomorrow. But when it will be seen it will last for eternity.
