We all know, or know of, people that are hard to please. Is God that way? Is God hard to please?
Faith
Without faith it is impossible to please God.
Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)
All religions, other than Christianity, teach that you have to earn your way to God through works. Those who are trying to earn God’s acceptance through works fail. They will die in their sins.
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:8)
Belief in Jesus Christ, however, means Christ-followers have faith and therefore please God.
Growing in Pleasing
The entry point in pleasing God is faith. If you have received Christ as Lord and Savior, you please God.
And, then, through our lives, as we grow, as we are sanctified, we learn more and more how to please God.
trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:10)
We learn how to walk in a manner worthy of Him.
Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. (1 Thessalonians 4:1)
Motives
Over time, we learn how to bring our motives in line with what God wants.
Thought, Word, Deed
Over time, we learn how to think, say, and do what God wants.
Make Pleasing God our Ambition; Our Driving Goal
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. (2 Corinthians 5:9)
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Father, thank You that we, believers in Christ, can please You. Help us please You more and more.
