Figure out what will please God and then do it.
Our creator wants fellowship with us. God made you to love you, and he longs for you to love him back. "I don't want your sacrifices, I want your love; I don't want your offerings, I want you to know me."
God smiles when we trust him completely.
God smiles when we obey him wholeheartedly.
God doesn't owe you an explanation or a reason for everything he asks you to do.
God smiles when we praise and thank him continually.
An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled.
God smiles when we use our abilities.
Every human activity, except sin can be done for God's pleasure if you do it with an attitude of praise.
He knows you are incapable of being perfect or sinless. What God looks for is the attitude of your heart
In what areas of my life do I need to trust God more?.....All areas. I'm getting the praise and worship part of this clearly; I can see a game plan where I can continually grow to please God more, but the partial obedience part really hit me hard today. "Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commandments we obey. We make a list of the commandments we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular." Just reading through the 10 commandments, I'm amazed how many that I partially obey. How many times have I listened to and spread gossip? How many times have I not forgiven? Love my neighbor, really? The list goes on. "Partial obedience is disobedience." So... I am disobedient. All I can say is that by placing my trust in the Lord, each day I will be a little better at seeing and correcting my failings. I know I can't earn my place in heaven, that part is guaranteed, but I want God to smile when he thinks about me.
We please God by what we do. And in my case what I'm working on.
We can please God in everything we do. Hmm. I have never thought of daily tasks as pleasing God. Going to work, running errands, making dinner. Searching for misplaced concert ticket. Which by the way, I failed miserably to be pleasing to God or anyone while I was doing this. But, when I think about it. I can be pleasing to God while doing everything. If I embrace a Christ like attitude in all things. I can be a kinder, gentler, more gracious, patient and loving. Therefore pleasing to God. I have a lot of work to do. I am a work in progress.
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