I find myself repeating this phrase in my head over and over again:
I can't please people, but I can please God.
There's times when the world is pulling me at every angle and my mind is in a million places, and sometimes I commit to things that are much larger then I am, and at the end I may not fully please the people around me but I always please God in doing His work, in connecting His people, and in spreading His love.
Jesus' love was LONG-SUFFERING, and if we have to go through the WORLDY emotions around us MY PRAYER is that we all be long sufferers and pick up our CROSS and just remember we AREN'T CALLED to please the world, we are called to please the Lord.
I challenge you to read and understand Galatians 1:10 ...
Love you guys. God bless.
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For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the work of god is more profound than its face value. Sometimes god gives us more challenge than we might feel we can accomplish. Sometimes the shadow of burden we feel from our work spreads further and deeper than we may ever see. Jesus' love was long and suffering... but what great things that says for man... that the son of god, god himself, would suffer for us and sacrifice for us like a father starving so his children may eat. How truly loved we must be. The work he gives us may require more strength than we have but does that not make us become stronger? And cast into the endless shadow of burden do we not learn to see light in even in darkness? The work he grants offers blessings in disguise... strength in faith and depth in vision.
You can please people. You do please people. But their pleasure should not come at the cost of your responsibilities to god. And may the one who is displeased by those who put the lords work first stand and be scene, for he is a lost soul begging to be saved. And somehow amidst their cynicism and doubt you may please them still; for those of us who have lost our faith are blessed again when we find it in others. No greater pleasure can there be.