Pleasing the Lord. It's not really that difficult to do...IF you're serious about your walk of faith! 1 John 5:3 ---- Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.
Our Heavenly Father does NOT demand that His child live a perfect faithful life in order to please Him! He knows that we have sin 'issues.' He knows that in this life we are never going to give Him 100 % of our heart and mind...100% of the time. Our Heavenly Fathers knows that His sin-cursed children are going to 'let Him down.' Knowing all of that, He simply desires that His children live a sincere and Truthful faithful life...dealing with our short-comings thru repentance and perseverance. However, in spite of our sin-cursed short-comings...He still expects us to WALK in a manner which pleases Him. And we can do that with a genuine, humble walk of perseverance and repentance. Today's Church age Believer's responsibility to faithfully walk in obedience to God's Word is not much different than it was for the Believers of the Old Testament. Which was "choose this day whom you're going to serve." God told His people in the Old Testament to choose which 'side' you want to be on. He told them, IF you choose to be on My 'side' (by knowing and obeying My Word), life will go well for you. However, IF you choose to disobey...I promise you that it will NOT go well. (P.S. Those consequences are the result of either pleasing or not pleasing the Lord!) Seems like a no-brainer choice to make doesn't it? And yet, many times God's children in the Old Testament made the wrong choice! Unfortunately, for the most part, today's Believers are also choosing to make the wrong choices. Many of God's children have 'wandered away' from the doctrinal Truths that God has given His Church. And they are instead doing what seems right in their own eyes!
Saints, it's impossible to please the Lord without striving to be obedient to those commandments and teachings that the Lord has handed down for the Church. And no matter how sincere you are...or no matter how good you feel about what you're doing for the Lord...IF you're NOT worshipping Him in SPIRIT and TRUTH, you cannot please Him!
John 14:21 ----Those who accept My commandments and obey them are the ones who love Me. And because they love Me, My Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”
Brethren, without true biblical faith it's impossible to please God! All that 'churchy stuff' (that's not Bible based) is simply religiosity. We have to DO as the Good Book says...or our 'works' will be 'burnt up' at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
