Often, as God's people, we feel that we can not please God without making someone angry. We read verses like Galatians 1:10 "For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." and feel that we have only 2 options: please man or please God. Certainly, there are many times when pleaseing God will upset the hearts of men. Conversely, the same can be said about our pleasing man. However, this is not always the case.
Proverbs 16:7 says, "When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him". I believe our objective is not to tick off those around us in hopes of pleasing God, but rather to please God first, regardless of how it affects man. In other words, our chief concern is to please God first. We do this by seeking first God's kingdom and His righteousness (Matt. 6:33). Our hope is to do this while, at the same time, meet the needs of those around us in a way that will please our God.
Obviously, as it pertains to the sins of man, we can not condone or permit the wrongful actions of others. We must speak boldly about sin and its dangers. This is done by declairing the truth of God as it pertains to sin. And how do we do this in a way that it may glorify God? By not stopping short at simply declairing sin to be wrong, but also by declairing righteousness to be right. This can only be done by offering Christ as freedom from sin. How easy it is to point out the failures of others without meekly offering the solution.
May we seek to please God today by revealing the truth of His love for all man kind.
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