It’s taken me a long time to even get saved...and I’m at hurdle number 976
and now I am struggling to understand how to serve God.
After being saved, a committed Christian will strive to perfect his relationship with the Lord. This is done with
prayer, both
reading and studying the Bible,
worshipping with fellow believers, and prayerfully
putting Gods words into your action. This is not a part of becoming saved, but a result of the relationship that comes out of salvation.
James 1:23-25, New American Standard
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.
Is there any bible verses on this?
Is it just a case of keeping his commandments?
I would point out that keeping His commandments is not a small thing.
Matthew 22:36-40, New American Standard
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Love sounds simple, but on the level our Lord was speaking it is the sacrificial organizing and empowering principle of ones life. None of us truly attain and fully live that way, but we should each be progressing.
The commandments as a list of rules, some literally written in stone, only point to evidences of Love. If you break one of the commandments, you are not showing Love. But following all those rules does not mean one is living by love.
Christian Love affects (and should control) how we approach our work, how we interact with those around us, and how we spend our 'spare' time.