How Can We Deepen Our Relationship with God and Best Serve Him?

How Can We Deepen Our Relationship with God, and Best Serve Him?

Eileen Renders

We may believe that as young adults, serving God requires more time than we have to offer. We may be working full-time jobs, caring for young children, and a home, tending to our financial duties, and our ongoing daily household chores. However, God, in his divine wisdom, is totally aware of your time restrictions. Therefore, you can understand how God does not require all your time or attention.

What then does God ask of us to grow spiritually and meaningfully in our relationship with Him? What God desires of us is only what is reasonable and what we can give. First, we must understand what it is He wants from us. God desires our love, and that will require a bit of our time every day, if only it is our bedtime prayers. In that time spent with Christ, however, it is our sincerity, our desire to always keep Him in our hearts, to surrender to Him, our Bridegroom who created us.

We can focus on God throughout our busy days, and we can remember to thank Him for our jobs, our healthy children, our homes, and His loving protection. We can say a little prayer each day for God to please remain within us, to keep us from putting another before Him, by asking Him to help us grow in our faith, and to trust in only Him.

Again, I refer to my days of studying and preparing for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion. We were questioned in Class to see how prepared we were. I was so nervous about remembering why God made us. The answer was, and still is. God made us to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world so we could one day be happy with Him in Heaven forever.

God said, “What you do for the least of my brethren, you do unto Me.” We all should be living to serve God through helping less fortunate individuals. The homeless, the lonely in Nursing Homes, the hungry, and every small opportunity that presents itself to help another less fortunate. God, in the end, can only judge what we have done and what we have not done before deciding our fate. God Himself has shown us more love, mercy, and humility than the whole world put together in one big bundle. We are all in our commitments and service, and love to others, and want very much to have that love returned. God never leaves us; it is we, led by Satan, who believe the world and its temporary pleasures can sustain our contentment, ah, but not so.

When we trust in Him, He will lead us home!