Comments on: Pleasing Man

By: Sheri

Sheri — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:51:41 +0000

To shower ALL with the Love of Jesus, Bless all etc. Keeps us outside of mans domain and into HIS Keeping. For our focus is not on man or self, but pleasing the Lover of our very soul. Jesus.

By: Laura Grace

Laura Grace — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:52:01 +0000

Very good. thank you! I needed this.

By: sherry

sherry — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 04:13:42 +0000

My issue would be, needing to be accepted by doing what others thought I should. I have actually been ridiculed for not doing something with my life how someone else thought I should. When this happens you become a prisoner to them. It is absolute bondage. The Lord opened my eyes one day that I didn’t have to live that way. I still struggle with this because I don’t want certain people angry at me for any reason. But this way of life is so tiring and eventually resentment sets in. We cannot please people because there will always be something else that wasn’t done right. Its never ending.

By: Ken Dawson

Ken Dawson — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:12:10 +0000

It is obvious that when Gods being inside of us is in control we will be pleasing unto our Lord–and then we may very well not be pleasing to the natural humans.

By: Charlotte Cardozo

Charlotte Cardozo — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:15:45 +0000

Fear is not of the Lord we got to know that He that is in us is Greater than he who is in the world. Thank you Lord for your Amazing Grace for we can humble ourselves as little children and trust that you the one in control. May your Name be high and lifted up for you Regin

By: Denise Freed

Denise Freed — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:13:30 +0000

I AM one of those people who have a VERY bad case of wanting to please people. I am afraid of opening my mouth in fear of coming across as being too abrasive or mean. This is a deep seeded root in my life and has been for as long as i can remember. Self-love is a real problem for me also. I have been praying for God to teach me how to not fear man and how to rid myself of me. I thank God for using you to get such articles out as this one to the people like myself who need to hear them. Again i say, thank you!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:42:07 +0000

Yes, I’m seeing that to build on man, and that includes ourselves, is to build on sand. The storms will come, and the house will fall.
Only by building on the Lord, can we be secure.
He is our only Security. He is our only Sure Thing.
Everything else will fail or fall.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:16:41 +0000

What a good article. We all have our weaknesses, and mine is wanting to be appreciated. However, God is doing a new thing in me. For years I have kept silent, and that’s been taken as agreement. Although I did not face outward rejection, inwardly it did not feel so good.
Lately God has been having me speak up (hopefully in love and at His leading). It truthfully feels like a breath of fresh air. The relationships that are of Him will remain. And they will be healthier as well.
Its funny. The thing that I fear, is the thing that I am in bondage to. And I put that bondage onto myself.
The freedom comes, when I realize that the bondage I have put onto myself, is worse (or at least more constant), than the thing which I fear.
Fear of man shows an unhealthy fear of God. For if I really trusted in God, I would not fear man.I know this is difficult to explain, but if I more fully trusted in the goodness of God, I would not elevate man to that place where I fear him.
Chip is talking about the cross in the discipleship program. What I am learning is the cross, by killing those things in me that need to die, (such as crazy misconceptions about God), that resurrection life does come, with freedom from these irrational fears.