Day 128 – Who do you need to prove yourself to?
Today’s Reading: Job 16 – 20
“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.” Job 16:19.
Hi, my name is Kristen, and I’m a recovering people pleaser. Or thankfully, trying to work on just pleasing God and not having to please man. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I truly love helping others, but when I think someone doesn’t like me, I will make myself sick trying to figure out why. So it makes things worse when I constantly feel like I’m being judged. That’s when I try my hardest to just make others happy.
Thanks be to God, He has really opened my eyes to this, and I feel like I’m gaining my voice again and being able to be myself. This isn’t a harsh voice, I’m just being me, the one God made me to be.
We are created to Glorify God, not to allow worry and anxiety to tear us up inside over the thoughts of others. I still try to love others well, but I love God most.
“Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.” Galatians 1:10.
The Lord sits on high and He is our only judge. If we do what He wants we are essentially thinking of others more than ourselves, because we are reflecting Him to the world by being a servant to all. We are pleasing God by loving others enough to reveal to them the many gifts of God.
Job was confronted by this very same situation, yet He did not give in to the pressure, He just asked God to be his witness.
“My friends scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to God, that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.” Job 16:20-22.
As I wake every morning, I am mesmerized by God’s creation. It is all beautiful in its own way, and creation doesn’t try to change who it is to make others happy. The more I watch creation the more it reflects God to me and the Heaven I can’t wait to get to.
It can be truly exhausting to please others, yet so freeing to please God!
Why do we waste our breath and our time on anything other than what God wants. Let’s choose now to please only God, so that in pleasing Him we can Glorify Him to others and He will stand as our witness in the days yet to come.
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