My life with God.  Your life with God.  Ever wonder what it will be like?  Do you think that you will be ready when the time comes for you to die and for Jesus to come back for you? It's a really good question.  I am sure that there are many devout Catholic's who are working out their souls salvation while still living on earth.  I just so happen to be one of them!  I am totally focused on preparing my soul for eternity.  I am very much aware because God has placed this important issue at the top of my list.  

Therefore, I cannot ignore the process he has begun in my life.  God is number one.  And when we place God where he needs to be, he begins a great work in us.  We just need to acknowledge him and step aside and allow him to enter into us and begin a great clean up.  God wants order.  Always.  End of story.  And when we follow God, orderliness begins to take root in us.  And the life God had intended for us to live begins.  And our personal intended lifestyle dies.  We die to ourselves so that we can live in Christ.  Sounds simple and yet we make it unnecessarily, complicated. 

The beauty of following Gods ways are this.  They continue to flow, and as his most perfect plans become revealed to us personally, we observe his ways, as being truly better for us in the long run.   He leads us graciously, joyfully, and surprises us at every turn.  We can never out give God, so why not give him our very lives so that he can do greater things in us and through us by allowing him to use us, as his perfect instruments.  Can we totally give up our free will and serve God and neighbor in this capacity?  You would think that we would be giving up a lot, but,  in essence God is only trying to give us more.   But in our humanity we are fooled, yes, perhaps even foolish, to not allow our creator who made us, in that deep to save us, before we destroy ourselves from the inside out.  

I would much rather trust in God and allow him access to my life for the sole purpose of saving my soul.  Its a win win, and I have to tell you that I have personally done this and my life is more fruitful, more joyful, more holy, and my life is more disciplined and I like that very much.  Because I can remember when it was not like that and I hurt a lot of people because I could not see myself as I truly was.  And God took that imperfection and miraculously cured and healed me, so that I could work on becoming a true disciple of Christ.