WHOSE APPROVAL DO WE WANT?

Galations 1:10 NLT Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.

I watched a film recently about a lady who felt she had to please everybody and always agreed with what everyone else wanted rather than confront a situation and say she didn’t actually agree with them or didn’t want what they thought she wanted!

It made me stop and think, why do we not like to be honest and say what we really think or feel? Some of the time it’s because we don’t want to offend or hurt others, but is it also because we don’t want them to disapprove of us or be rejected? The Apostle Paul had decided to say and do what Jesus wanted, no matter what anyone else thought!🙂

If we are followers of Jesus we will find ourselves having to decide whether we’re going to obey God and do what His Word says, or be a doormat and let others tell us how to live and think.

God has called us to be a people who can swim upstream against the culture of our day where people want everyone to just ‘fit in’, to be like everyone else. But God never called us to be like everybody else, He called us to be the unique masterpiece, one of a kind person, that He designed and called us to be. John the Baptist certainly didn’t fit the mould and neither did Jesus!

 Are we willing to be who God made and called us to be, or are we going to be moulded by what others say? God calls us to live differently to the world. 

Some people may be shocked to find we don’t think like they do and that we believe the Word of God is our final authority, which is contrary to how most people think today. So God is asking us all today “Whose approval do you really want?”

Lord help us to be who You made us and want us to be, holy and set apart for You, and not what someone else or the world tells us to be; to think Your thoughts and not the world’s thoughts. In Jesus name. Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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