PEOPLE – PLEASERS?

The tendency to please man or woman in our daily living is very high, especially in our society, where demands from family, friends, lecturers, challenging supervisors, to mention but a few, are ever so rife. But the good Lord in His love and mercy asks us in Matthew 28: 29 (“ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls”), to come to Him with all our  burdens. He asks us to stop trying to cut ourselves down to please man, but He asks us to please Him and He will give rest to us.

I strongly believe that if Christians of our day come to the acceptance and belief of this Biblical principle our lives will indeed be filled with rest and we will live a much more stress free life. God desires that we have “life and have it abundantly”; but how can we live this abundant life, if we do not constantly seek to place the Giver of life than to please man. We need to come to this divine junction, where by we take the right route, to focus much more on pleasing God, than man. Indeed as we seek first His kingdom, all that we desire on this earth shall be given to us; peace in our families, success in our business and studies, and the other desires we seek so much to attain. He will always guide us to have peaceful and fulfilled living as we continue to remain in His love, constantly seeking to please Him.

This is our weakness, especially in such a fast moving world. But I pray that our request to our father shall be; Lord, teach me not to be a people –pleaser but a pleaser of your heart.” Amen.

FOR US HE CAME

O! The pain, the pain,

The pains of labour,

All these she had to habour

O! The fear, the fear,

The fear of being caught,

But yet she was taught,

That for us He came.

He thought of the disgrace;

Her, being pregnant without even an embrace

He felt the confusion in his mind,

His baby is to become one of a kind,

But yet he was not blind to see,

That for us He came.

And there he lay,

Soundly asleep in the hay.

His tiny feet and hands they watched in dismay;

“How can this baby save us one day?”

But yet they must believe without delay,

That for us He came.

Then arrived the wise men

Presenting gifts of gold, incense and myrrh.

What a child! even the Magi called him sir

And the bright star was there.

But yet in all this, it was clear,

That for us He came.