I Aim to Please God, Not Man...

When you take a moment to think about it, whether we realize it or not, much of what we do is done to please people, impress others or out of fear of man. Even in my own life I can clearly recognize times where my motivation has been to please people. Even though I'd say my goal was to please God, when I got down to it, my goal was to please others. I think this is a fine line where people can easily get off track as Christians. In John 12:43 it says, "For they loved human praise more than the praise of God." This is talking about people who did things not to please God, but to impress people. They were more concerned about what others thought instead of what God thought. If your goal is to please man you'll always fail. You'll never measure up. So why would we even try to do this? Today I'm going to check my motives and why I'm doing things. Is is to be seen by others? Or to receive praise from men? Today my goal will be do things to please the Lord.