Have you ever been in a position where
you feel like you’re living to please someone? My answer to this question is
YES. I bet you’re wondering whom I was pleasing right. Well keep reading I’ll
tell you more. It got to a point in my life where my main aim in life was to
please the people around me like my friends. I could go an extra mile just to
make a friend happy. I quite remember back in secondary school I could lie
about the things I don’t have just to fit in with some type of people I met. I
used words to paint my life the colour I wanted it to be for others to see.
But by the grace of God my aim is to
live a life that’s pleasing God now. Thank God for salvation. Well, I just want
to encourage you to aim to please God in all that you do. I’m going to share
with you some ways in which you can please God. The Bible says in Hebrews 11:6
that, “And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to
come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who
sincerely seek him.” (NLT)
What this verse is saying is that in
other to please God you must have faith and believe he exists. What is faith
then? Faith simply means having belief and confidence in someone or something
based on spiritual conviction rather than proof. So instead of lying and doing
certain things to please humans who will disappoint you have faith in God and
that will please him.
Another way of pleasing God is by doing
his will. This is confirmed in Hebrews 13:20-21 which states that, “Now may the
God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd
of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you complete in
everything good so that you may do his will, working among us that which is
pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and
ever. Amen.” (NRSV)
A powerful man of God once said that,
“The will of God is so mysterious that we will never understand it” Trying to
understand a mystery will just take an individual round in circles because we
can never understand it. However when you pray, you have to find time and pray for the
will of God to be done in your life because praying for the will of God covers
our past, present and future.
You can also please God by fearing him.
If you fear someone you obey their words and treat them in such a way that they
never get angry with you. Psalms 147:11 says that “The Lord taketh
pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.” (KJV) The
verse above is saying that God will be pleased with you if you have a reverential awe of
him and honour him.
Offering God the sacrifices he deserves
is another way of pleasing. In other words God is pleased and he appreciates it
when we give him sacrifices of praise as his word says that we should bless him
with our soul and everything within us. God is pleased if we appreciate him for
whom he is and offer him sacrifices accordingly. Hebrews 13:15-16 says that “By
him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is,
the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to
communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” (KJV)
Dear reader if your aim is just to
please your friends and the people around you then I’ll suggest you change your
style. Aim to live a life that is pleasing to God by having faith in him, doing
his will, giving him the sacrifice he deserves and by fearing and obeying him. Let pleasing God become the highest priority in your life/
Stay blessed and remember to share to
encourage or bless someone
~ Louisahazel
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