April 3, 2023
Monday
Pleasing God
Hebrews 13: 13-17
5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Who do you most want to please? Your spouse? Your parents? A teacher or coach? When we admire someone, we want to please them. Jesus said, “The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him” (John 8:29).
Just as Jesus desired to please His Father, we should seek to please Jesus. The book of Hebrews gives us two specific ways of pleasing Him. First, He is pleased when we trust Him with our burdens and exercise faith in Him. Hebrews 11 says, “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, ‘and was not found, because God had taken him’; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him” (verses 5-6).
Second, according to Hebrews 13, the Lord is pleased when we are generous and share with those in need: “But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased” (verse 16).
Is there something you need to commit to God in faith? Is there someone who needs your act of kindness today?
A point to ponder…
It should be our greatest desire to please our Redeemer.
R. C. Sproul, in Pleasing God
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