How do i know i pleasing god

And how do we do that? We spend time in prayer, studying the Word, being relational with others. We must make the time to be with God — on our own and in community with others — and to know him. And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. Jesus Christ lived life, doing it perfectly and doing all to the glory of God. We can imitate Christ by obediently walking in His footsteps I Peter and showing love and thankfulness to Him by staying true to his teachings and commands.

Make it a lifelong process. It really is one. We can and should start without having to first know it all. Because we never will. There is no textbook for personal experience. We experience God by doing and seeking his discernment… whoa! Bottom line, God guides us and helps us understand as we move. Not as we lie dormant on a couch or hanging out in our own little personal kingdoms.

Please God by intentionally stepping out. Just one step. Get going. One step leads to another. Before you know it, knowing and growing closer to God will be more comfortable and part of your nature. In every occupation of life and in every hour of our day, we can be involved with one or more of those areas. The first, "being fruitful in every good work," tells us how to spend our time.

Work is honorable in all things. It has a way of setting our troubles aside. Work causes our worries to cease. It shortens the time by focusing our attention. Just as there is a good work, there is also bad work: work that destroys, work that steals, work that draws men to iniquity. But God is pleased when we occupy ourselves in every good work. Second, God is also pleased when we increase our knowledge of Him. Some deny his existence at times; others claim knowledge of Him by life experience.

Still, others profess to have received revelation from Him. How do we know what source to use so that we might increase in our knowledge of God? From the same source that tells us it is possible to know that we are pleasing him in this life: the Bible.

The Old and New Testaments combined give us the greatest single source of a knowledge of God. Jesus Christ himself gives us the greatest insight into the nature and the actions of God. No one declared God is love in as clear and concise a manner as Jesus Christ.

Sometimes, though, I'm not quite sure what this means in practice. I face choices that perplex me, choices, not between right and wrong so much as gradations of right. I want to do what's best, but sometimes am not clear what this is.

So, help me, Lord, to find out what pleases you. Guide me to see how my life can produce the abundant fruit of goodness, righteousness, and truth. Lead me through your Word. Counsel me through your people. Help me to be more like Christ each day. And we naturally find such an image unseemly.

This is not the image of Jesus, the most influential person who walked the planet. Neither is it the image of those we truly admire and can name were the most influential people in our own lives. In this week's series at The High Calling, Leadership Influence: Beyond the Stereotype , we feature stories of how people can be influential in ways that really matter.

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By Mark D. Published by The High Calling, June 18,