The greatest advice to live your best life.
If I was a thousand years old, full of so much wisdom and knowledge and you asked me for advice to live your best life I would tell you…
To grow your knowledge of our Heavenly Father: God
When we think of God, we usually associate Him as a judge, condemning, punishing and striking us with lightning because we disobey Him. Even us believers who have better knowledge of Him think of things along these lines. But thoughts like this are built from the wrong understanding of God.
In 2 Peter 1: 2 it says, “May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.” More and more Grace and Peace, not more and more condemnation or religiousness. Learning about God with the revelation of Jesus Christ – that Christ died and rose for us so that we can be reconciled back to God and have a relationship with Him not based on our efforts but based on what Jesus did on the Cross for us – we experience His unfailing love and grace and see Him as a loving father full of compassion for us.
God is love (1 John 4: 18) , when we experience his perfect love we are made complete with the fullness of life and the power that comes from Him (Ephesians 3:19), He is faithful even when we are faithless (2 Timothy 2:13) He is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8) and we can come to Him with bold confidence because God is greater than our feelings (1 John 3: 20)
We increase our knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord by reading the Word and praying that the Holy Spirit reveals more to us. When we know that we are loved and favoured by the Most High we find joy, peace, love, compassion, freedom etc all in Him. We learn to let go and put our trust in Him because He causes all things to work for our good (Romans 8:28).
God is good all the time and I pray you really understand that. Our Heavenly Father loves you unconditionally! He wants you to be happy, enjoying life, living in peace and abundance.
So if you asked me today what advice I would give you to live your best life, I would tell to grow in your knowledge of our faithful, compassionate Abba (Hebrew for dad).
be blessed,
Aza