“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.”- Proverbs 29:25
For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
If I've learned one thing this year so far it is this..."Our purpose is to please God, not people."
Can we ever really please people anyway? Because of our sinfulness we constantly want more or something different and we can never be pleased. I don't know if you've noticed but we can be pretty selfish and pretty hard to please. We pretty much spend the majority of our life trying to please somebody. It can be pretty exhausting and frankly you'll never accomplish it.
If we decided to follow the Word of God and try and please God we would be a whole lot better off. After all He is our creator and the one with whom we will spend eternity. Perhaps we ought to get to know Him a little bit better...I don't know ...Just a thought.
These ramblings spun out of a guys Bible Study I had last night with some pretty cool guys (Sean Toohey and Doug Maronde). The Wednesday night Bible Study is definitely one of the highlights of my week. It's a great time to sit and share what's going on in our lives and work through things together.
Take time this week to work on pleasing God and not people. Let me know how things begin to change in your life as you make this adjustment this week. Let me know what you think.
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