I want to be a God pleaser!

I was reading Galations 1:10 this week and wanted to share what spoke to my heart. We as people can be impossible to please. It seems a lot of us try to be "people pleasers" and that truly should not be where our focus is and our goal.

We all screw up and are not perfect and because of that someone will always be disappointed or hurt by our actions and/or the action of others. I have found that when I let others down or hurt them it messes with my heart and my security. What I mean is that the guilt and/or shame of that action or words that I spoke that hurt another can fire up my insecurities and feelings of being a failure. You know that thought of "I always screw up" or "I never say or do the right things", they make me feel like worthless and I just want to wilt away. The devil loves nothing more than to pounce on those feelings and whisper lies to our spirits to try and make us believe all those things.

So in reading that scripture and really meditating on it, I realized that I will continue to say the wrong things and hurt people. I am not saying that we should not be concerned with people's feelings and not try to help others when needs arise. I am saying that we should look to the reason that we are doing what we do and make sure that our hearts are in the right place, the serving God place. The one we should try to please is the only one that truly loves us unconditionally, knows our hearts and created us to be the imperfect messes that we are. We should not be people pleasers, but should be God pleasers. People will let us down and we will let others down, but if our focus is on being pleasing to God, He will use all our actions for His purpose.

When we are real and transparent, screw ups and all, our hearts and our Jesus shine through. If we mess up, we should apologize to the person and to God and let it go so we can learn from it and move on. God doesn't want us to beat ourselves up and stay in our dark places, He wants us to boldly go where He leads us with the fearless security that He put in us.

I want to remember that God knows my heart and if I am walking the path that He has laid before me, I am headed the right way. So I pray that I will be a God pleaser and a bonus to that could just be that people are blessed by my actions and want to become a God pleaser too.