Be holy for your own benefit.

A person won $100 million in a lottery.

They refused to go get the money. So the police came out and forced them to.

Someone had terminal cancer. Was in hospice. Wonderfully, a cure was found at the last minute. But they refused to get the treatment. The relatives took them and forced them to get the treatment.

Not true, yet so true.

Great "profit," enormous benefits are available to all God’s children. That profit comes from holiness--submitting to God and obeying His commandments. God longs for His children's wellbeing. People seek their own wellbeing, but most are going about it the wrong way. God has revealed in the Bible that holiness is the way for people to have wonderful lives, but almost nobody believes it. So they strive for what appears to benefit, but does not.

Obeying God is not self-sacrifice, as so many believe. Though they may never admit it, they are convinced that God wins and they lose when they obey Him. That living according to God’s commandments ruins their earthly lives.

1 Timothy 4:8B KJV

[8] godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Proverbs 8:33,36 KJV

[33] Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

[36] But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Aim at profit, and never get it. Aim at holiness instead, and always get profit.

Yet so many stubbornly refuse the huge benefits of holiness. Instead, they cling on to insignificant things. So God has to force them to be holy, by means of His chastening.

Hebrews 12:10 KJV

[10] For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Surely, this must grieve God. So make it easy on God and on yourself and those around you. Seek holiness with all your heart.