That simplifies life enormously!
Jesus said,
“I don’t try to please myself, but I try to please the One who sent me” (John 5:30 NCV). He’s saying, in effect, “I’m living for an audience of one.”
Did you know that people-pleasing is a form of idolatry? The first commandment in the Ten Commandments says,
“You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3 NIV).
Anything you put before God becomes a god. So a boat could be a god. A career could be a god. A girlfriend could be a god. Golf could be a god. Anything that becomes number one in your life that isn’t God becomes your god.
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