What Matters Most, What GOD Says or What People Say 7-31-24
When this quote was sent to me, I felt a strong and convicting message could be written from it. I wrote about people pleasers years ago, which meant would one rather be a people please or God pleaser. From my many experiences over the years, not only did I learn the hard way, but I also suffered
from trying to please people.
Words on image- IF GOD IS PLEASED, IT DOESN”T MATTER WHO ISN’T.
It is impossible to please people when it comes to comparing them with pleasing God. It’s similar to trying to please the flesh, which can never be satisfied; it’s always craving more. When we try to please people they will also find other things or ways that they want us to please them with.
People pleasers walk in the flesh, that’s why we need to please God, because He is Spirit, and we should walk in the spirit and not fulfill the lust of our flesh or fleshy people’s desires or demands. Another thing, when you stop meeting others’ demands, they turn against you. People like that were never your friends because their motives were impure.
Some of them will speak evil against you- Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Matthew 5:11-12).
How can anyone rejoice and be exceedingly glad when all manners of evil is said against them? I will say from my own experience that it does hurt to the core, but after I get past the initial hurt, I start laughing, not at the evil the people have done, but because the devil did not win.
As for me, I pray that these people will get convicted and convinced of their wrongdoing and ask the Lord and the person they hurt, to forgive them.
What would you rather do, please someone who only cares about what you can do for them, or would you please the Lord who will reward you for obeying him rather than some person.
Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!”
But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:26-29).
The bottom line is this: God causes these types of people to be at peace with you. When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him (Proverbs 16:7).
Check out your mind, who are you going to please? It’s time to make a decision.
What could any of us do without the Lord?
Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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