Your Life Should Be A Monument To God
I’m coming to the conclusion that you cannot be half righteous.
I've been thinking about what it means to live entirely to please God. Not partially. Not when convenient. Entirely.
Secularists make decisions based on what brings them perceived value—money, power, pleasure, vanity. Even love becomes narcissistic: for how it makes them feel, look, and serve their ego.
That's not love. That's self-worship.
The whole secular worldview equates love to vanity and pleasure. It's lowly and terrible because it bastardizes what should be sacred.
Your entire life must become a monument to what God deems righteous. You can't be half a monument. Look at Peter Thiel—he knows what's right, knows what's antichristian, yet pursues evil anyway. It's destroying his body and soul. You can't do some really messed up things but then donate enough to clean your sins. That's not how it works. Sin taints your soul—it's not a bank account where negatives cancel out positives.
Living to please God requires three things: First, acknowledging there is fundamental truth. You might not have it perfectly, but Truth exists. Second, striving toward Truth with everything you have. Third, constantly reexamining what you think is true to ensure you're not chasing something misaligned.
This creates real challenges with relationships. It's nearly impossible for me to have deep friendships with materialists anymore. Drastically different worldviews mean drastically different approaches to every major decision. When life gets hard—and it always does—you need people who share your framework for addressing temptation and hardship.
Marriage is the ultimate test of this principle. Marrying someone uncommitted to virtue is a recipe for disaster. When you're building a life together, raising children, facing decades of challenges—if your partner isn't all in on righteousness, everything is bound to fall apart. They'll compromise when pressure comes. They'll prioritize comfort over truth. They'll teach your children that God's commands are negotiable.
Life is hard enough when both partners fear God and commit to virtue. It's impossible when one person treats faith as optional or thinks you can be partially righteous. You can't build a family on a foundation that crumbles under pressure.
The pool of fully committed people is tiny. But you only need to find one. You're not going to swipe your way to a holy woman on dating apps. The whole thing is demonic artifice. God will put the right person in your path if you're faithful and refuse to compromise your standards.
Same with friendships. Quality over quantity. I don't need random friends to fill some emotional void. I need a divine council that fears God. Deep relationships with people who hold me accountable to truth and help me grow in righteousness.
The vast majority of Christians are half-hearted. One foot in, one foot out. They've been told better but don't live better. They compromise on fundamental principles because surrounding themselves with hypocritical Christians makes those rules feel negotiable. I regularly meet people who wear cross necklaces who seem baffled that I genuinely believe in the things that are spelled out in the Bible. That’s how watered down Western “Christianity” has become.
But the essence of what the Bible speaks on is real. The spiritual realm is real. And actual evil saturates the world—and it works through our food systems, media, everywhere. God put you on Earth to notice and fight for what’s righteous.
The most dangerous thing you can do is lie to yourself about whether you’re living and acting righteously. Once you believe your own lies long enough, you stop being conscious they're lies. They become your reality. That's when recovery becomes nearly impossible. This is also why aligned friendships matter. They can call you out when you're deceiving yourself. They remember who you were before the lies took hold.
When you live for Truth instead of comfort, people will call you crazy or weird. That's fine. I'd rather be thought insane for noticing obvious reality than be thought normal for participating in civilizational destruction.
Your whole existence should honor God. Every decision, every relationship, every use of time and energy. Anything less sows the seeds of your destruction.
Your existence should reflect a total commitment to righteous living. Complete devotion to pleasing the One who made you. Everything else is a diabolic distraction.
Make your life a monument worthy of its Creator.