Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant - Galatians 1:10

This is something God’s been speaking to me about this lately, concerning the whereabouts of my heart, is it with Him or is it with the majority? Is winning the approval of the people in my life worth more to me than the quiet peace that comes from knowing that He is mine and I am His? God is teaching me to brutally honest with myself these days, the Spirit urges me to question my every motive, my every thought; so that everything I am would be rooted in Him. My prayer everyday is “search me Lord, know my heart” (Psalm 139:23). I am sick of lying to myself, and consoling myself when the truth is right there in front of me. I want to be all out for Jesus, and there is no in-between, that’s the sad thing, if you’re going to love Him, then you should love Him with everything that you are. Where do your thoughts drift to most of the time? What’s your motive behind your actions? When the answers to these questions are as such: “because everyone else is doing it”, “because I want people to like me”, “because it would make me seem more interesting”, then I know that’s not me following the will of God or bringing glory to His name or pleasing Him. And friends, that’s what we were created to do. Any other kind of existence is a failure in His eyes. He doesn’t require your perfection, He just requires that you make Him your sole purpose in life, is that too much to ask for a God that abandoned His heavenly robes and lowered Himself to being beaten by humans He created? I pray that we would keep our eyes on Him and let everything else fade into the background.