What is your goal in life?  Is your goal in life to please God or to please men?

So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him” (2 Corinthians 5:9).

Pleasing people isn’t hard: It’s impossible. 
 If you get one group pleased, another group will dislike you, and when you try to please them, another group will pop out against you.
But the Bible makes it clear how we can please God. Hebrews 11:6 says, “Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Let’s turn that around, “With faith it is possible to please God.”

The truth is you can’t please human beings. It is a futile effort. As you’re trying to please one person, you’re displeasing others. The person you compromised to please today may even turn against you tomorrow after he has gotten what he wanted. You will hate yourself for compromising and allowing yourself to be used; you will feel guilty for displeasing God to please a human being. 

Make pleasing God your goal in life, not pleasing men. This is one way to simplify life for yourself.

Jesus tells us the futility of trying to please human beings. He says, “For John the Baptist didn’t drink wine and he often fasted, and you say, ‘He’s demon possessed.’  And I, the Son of Man, feast and drink, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of the worst sort of sinners!’ But wisdom is shown to be right by what results from it” (Matthew 11:18-19 New Living Translation). Did you see that?

Jesus was so focused on pleasing His father .
Jesus says in John 8:29, “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him” (New King James Version).  

The Apostles were focused on Pleasing God .
In Acts 5:29, Peter and the other apostles answered the High Priest that they would rather obey God than men. In other words, they would not obey the Sanhedrin’s command not to teach again in the name of Jesus. Eventually, the trial ended and the apostles were beaten and commanded again not to speak in the name of Jesus. Did they regret that they were beaten? No. 

They left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Jesus (verses 40-41).  They never stopped preaching or teaching in the name of Jesus because they would rather please God than men.

Serve God without any desire for recognition
One way to escape the approval addiction trap is to perform acts of service and kindness quietly and secretly so that there is no possibility of someone being impressed. 

Jesus said the Pharisees were consummate people-pleasers. When they gave money to the poor they would announce it with trumpets so everyone would see their generosity and give them approval. 

Then Jesus said, “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven…But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:1-4)

If you seek the applause of people for your acts of goodness, that’s all the reward you will ever receive—and you forfeit the reward from God. But when you serve faithfully, with no desire for the praise of people, God notices and God will reward you. The happiest, healthiest Christians I know aren’t trying to impress other people. They do their good deeds for an audience of One.

Live as if the only opinion that matters is God’s
We should do this because that’s really true. At some point in the future, we are going to face judgment, and we won’t be judged by other people, we’ll stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Paul wrote elsewhere, “I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed I do not even judge myself…it is the Lord who judges me.” (1 Corinthians 4:2-4)

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