This thought just hit me so I´m gonna write something about it. I think with our lives, our words, our actions and our choices we can mostly live by pleasing ourselves, pleasing people around us or pleasing God. I also think that only with that one of the choices we can really end up living really pleasant life.
If we live for pleasing ourselves we might have a pretty good life for ourselves. But whats the prize of that? To get ourselves pleased we end up hurting lots of people around us cause other people will end up paying the prize of our selfish lifestyle. Thats just a fact. We also end up breaking the commandment of our Lord Jesus which is to love our God and our neighbor as ourselves. We end up living in our little caves and shutting everybody and everyone including God out. We loose the sense of reality in the end.
If we live by pleasing the people around us. Well.. We might make some people happy but at the same time when we make one happy we make the other unhappy because it´s impossible to please everybody at the same time. In order to try to do that we end up compromising ourselves and what´s the worst we end up compromising the will of God. We end up denying the truth, faking and wearing the mask. The result is that we may make some happy but we end up being unhappy and God is not pleased either.
If we live for pleasing God. Well that´s the whole different story! Yes some people will not like us because we speak the truth of the word of God and live according to it. Even though we don´t judge people and are welcoming them into same sort of life, everybody doesn´t always wanna accept it. But guess what! When we stick with His truth even though not all is going to like us, there will be great peace in our lives, just by knowing that we are doing the right thing and our Heavenly Father is pleased! Now if some people are not happy with us then it may be because of their willingness to still please themselves or people around them. We can still see that willing to please God can give us much more pleasant life than any other way. Only that way we can have a real peace! Why don´t we give a go?
If we live for pleasing ourselves we might have a pretty good life for ourselves. But whats the prize of that? To get ourselves pleased we end up hurting lots of people around us cause other people will end up paying the prize of our selfish lifestyle. Thats just a fact. We also end up breaking the commandment of our Lord Jesus which is to love our God and our neighbor as ourselves. We end up living in our little caves and shutting everybody and everyone including God out. We loose the sense of reality in the end.
If we live by pleasing the people around us. Well.. We might make some people happy but at the same time when we make one happy we make the other unhappy because it´s impossible to please everybody at the same time. In order to try to do that we end up compromising ourselves and what´s the worst we end up compromising the will of God. We end up denying the truth, faking and wearing the mask. The result is that we may make some happy but we end up being unhappy and God is not pleased either.
If we live for pleasing God. Well that´s the whole different story! Yes some people will not like us because we speak the truth of the word of God and live according to it. Even though we don´t judge people and are welcoming them into same sort of life, everybody doesn´t always wanna accept it. But guess what! When we stick with His truth even though not all is going to like us, there will be great peace in our lives, just by knowing that we are doing the right thing and our Heavenly Father is pleased! Now if some people are not happy with us then it may be because of their willingness to still please themselves or people around them. We can still see that willing to please God can give us much more pleasant life than any other way. Only that way we can have a real peace! Why don´t we give a go?
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