Pleasing God

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: PLEASING GOD

Very few believers actually believe that they are pleasing to God. Most feel some degree of forgiveness and maybe acceptance, but to think that the Lord is actually pleased with us is another matter. A person can choose to love you because of his or her own goodness, but to be pleased with you, they actually have to like your performance. Right?

With God, no one could ever be pleasing to Him based on performance. His standard is perfection, and no goodness on our part can ever compensate for our sins. We may please man with our actions, but “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). It takes the precious blood of Jesus to do that.

The way we receive the forgiveness that’s available through Jesus’ blood is by faith (Rom. 10:9-17). When we put our faith in Jesus as our Savior, we are pleasing God. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please him.”

Faith comes from the heart (Rom. 10:10), and God looks on the heart — not the actions (1 Sam. 16:7). Of course, God sees our actions and will deal with us about them, only because they are inseparably linked to our hearts (Prov. 23:7).

It’s our hearts that really concern God, and faith in Him (trust, reliance) is what He is searching the heart for.
It’s not a case of those who act the best will get accepted, and those who act the worst get rejected. That would put some of the followers of other religions ahead of many Christians, but that is not what the Bible teaches.

This is the logic friends
All what you and me need is to get our heart right with God. When your heart is right with God, you will know his will and want to do his will and when you are doing his will, you will be far from sin and close to holiness, so no place for evil thought or evil doing.
... CONTINUE TOMORROW

LET US PRAY
Dear Lord Jesus Christ, help us to please you this year and give us a new heart of righteousness. In Jesus name.

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