The Responsibilities of a Christian
What are the responsibilities of a Christian? There are many, but two of the main responsibilities are one, that we should glorify God and two, that we make Him the number one priority in our lives. Glorifying God consists of many things we can do, such as serving others, working hard, and giving the Lord credit for everything good that we do. Also, to make God number one in our lives we must remember to try to obey His commandments, read His word, and most of all pray to God. These are the responsibilities of a Christian and our obligation to Christ for the gift of salvation.
God created us because He wanted to be glorified and praised and share His glory with us. In Exodus 20:5 it says, “I the Lord your God am a jealous God,” (ESV) so we need to praise Him and glorify Him. We can do this by serving others instead of ourselves, by working hard and to the best of our ability, and also by giving God praise and credit for everything. Knowing that we want to glorify God and please Him all the time should be a good enough reason to help us do that, but we still have our sinful nature pulling us away from Christ.
One way we can bring glory to God is by serving others. If we show God that we love and care for others more than ourselves, and truly mean it, it will glorify Him. Knowing that we want to please God should help us keep a glad heart that wants to serve. Joyfully we need to serve. God is only pleased if we do it for the right reasons. Down in our hearts if we are serving others because we want to be noticed by others, we are doing it for the wrong reason. Serving others to glorify God. That’s the reason we should do it.
Working hard glorifies God. If you are doing school, working at a job, or simply doing a little chore around the house, you need to work hard at it and do your best for the Lord. God will be glorified if you work hard for Him and Him only. In Colossians 3:23 it says, “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men… for you are serving the Lord Christ,” (ESV). You also need to have a good attitude while doing your work. To God, if you have a bad attitude it is like not doing it at all. Wholeheartedly is how we should do our work for God.
When we are working hard or serving others and someone compliments us there is one thing we should do that glorifies God the most, give credit and praise to God for everything. God is the one who makes it possible for us to do such things. He is the one who gives us our gifts and talents, and we need to recognize that. Despite what people may say, God still deserves the credit and praise. Thankfully accepting their compliment is okay, but we still need to add in praise to God. He deserves it. We should give it to Him because we truly love Him and want to glorify Him.
Praise Him. Worship Him. Glorify Him. Now you can go out and serve others knowing God is smiling down on you. You can work hard and truly know who you are working for. You can give credit to God and realize it is what glorifies Him the most.
God is the most important thing in our lives. We need to show Him that we love him and respect Him by making Him the number one priority. We can do that in many ways such as obeying the Ten Commandments that He gave us, reading His word, and equally as important by praying to Him. God is the almighty one and we know that He is to be loved, respected and worshipped all the time.
One way we can make God number one in our lives is to obey His commandments. Since the Bible says that no one can keep all of God’s commandments perfectly except Jesus, we know we can’t do it. God will help us to keep them by giving us the Holy Spirit to help us to recognize when we have broken one. When we ask forgiveness, God immediately forgives us. In Psalms 51:17 it says, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” Showing Him that we are truly sorry pleases Him, because He knows we are trying to do our very best. We should confess right away. And that shows we are putting Him first.
Reading God’s word is also a way we can make Him number one in our lives. When we start and end our day with God’s word, it shows we care about what God’s word says. God’s word is very important. Without it we would have nothing to live by, and we would not know God’s will for our lives. Naturally we should be thankful God gave us His word and His laws and we need to read them, and make Him the first part of our day.
Praying to God is another way we can put Him first in our lives. In 1 Thessalonians 5:17 it says, “Pray without ceasing,” (ESV). That’s what we need to do. It is our way of communicating with God just as the Bible is His way of communicating to us. The Lord loves to hear our prayers, and He wants us to pray to him. When we pray to God it shows we trust Him, because we are taking our cares and worries to Him first, and He loves to hear us praise him. Lovingly, he hears each and every one of our prayers and He cares for all of them.
God is our creator. He is righteous, He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and He deserves to be number one. When you get up in the morning and read God’s word and pray about it you can have a peace about why you are doing it. Even though you cannot fully keep all of God’s commandments, you can feel good about knowing He will forgive you, and help you to mature and grown more Christ-like.
Now you have learned just a few responsibilities that we have as Christians. Serving others for God’s glory, working hard and doing our best for God, but most importantly giving God credit for everything are just a few ways we can glorify Him. Also as Christians it should be our main goal to make God number one in our lives. To do that we need to obey His commandments, read His word, and we need to pray to Him. He loves to hear us pray to Him. Those are the responsibilities of a Christian.
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