Living God's Will

In today's society, it is very difficult for Christians to block out the world and to follow strictly what God wants for us. It's so easy to fall into striving for our wants, though what God wants is so much more important.

Isaiah 55:9
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Living by God's word will get us so much further than living how society may want us to live. Living by God's will keeps us on His path. Ignoring that causes us to easily get knocked off the path Christ has made for us into the prickers and fallen branches, causing us to get stuck, trip, and fall.

2 Corinthians 4:18
"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
By focusing on Christ, we can follow His path with no probelm, and we will end up spending eternity with Him. However, when we fall off that path, we are stuck with temporary happiness. This is so relevant in relationships. The relationships we have with our friends, with our boyfriends/girlfriends are nothing compared to the relationship that Christ wants to have with us. When all else fails, God will still be there for us. His love is everlasting, it will never ever go away no matter how far we stray. But when we focus on the world, we are not able to fully experience His love for us.

Romans 12:2
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will."
By living how the world wants us to live, we cannot see what God wants for us. We so easily are blinded by what we want and what the world wants that we cannot see clearly what Christ wants for us. When we focus on our relationship with God and how He wants us to live, we will clearly see what He wants for us. We will easily make it down the path of life that He sees for us. Without His light in our lives, we stray from that path, blinded by the darkness of the world.

Phillipians 4:8
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is pure, whatever is right, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things."
God wants us to think clean, pure thoughts. If we think of things in a sinful nature, we cannot live purely. By thinking of truth, purity, and praiseworthy things, we can easily live life in a Christ-like manner.