1 Thessalonians 2:4
4but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Dear friend,
I must confess to God my struggle with the sin of people-pleasing. Paul says in Galatians 1:10 that if he were still trying to please men, he would not be a servant of Christ. We have only one Master to serve. Earthly slavery is a terrible injustice that is even practiced today in parts of the world but let us not be afraid of that term because of it's tarnished reputation. We are to be slaves and bondservants of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have been purchased, bought with a price and we no longer live but Christ lives in us. Let us boldly serve God and become all things to all men that we might save them from the wrath to come without contorting the gospel in any way. May we do all things for the sake of the gospel as we have been entrusted with the most important thing that we will ever know. Father, please help myself and those who struggle to not look towards pleasing men but God, who tests our hearts.
In Christ,
Mike
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