“Pleasing God” or “Trusting God”. If you had to pick between these two where would you land?
That question was raised in material our accountability group was discussing not long ago. Both seem good don’t they?
The catch comes if we seek to please God by self-effort. You know what I mean, we work hard at saying the right things, we work hard at doing the right things, we work hard at stopping a bad habit, we work hard at…you fill in the rest. We’re working hard but it isn’t quite enough we fear, in fact we begin to doubt whether we will ever be able to please God.
Trusting God is different. It takes my focus off of what I am going to do for God and places it on what God is going to do in me. Sure I still have the same hang-ups, the same hurts, the same sin issues; but instead of a bunch of self-effort to improve myself, I am looking to God to change me, from the inside out. As he does that transformational work in me, I begin to live a life that is truly pleasing to him.
What pathway are you on right now? Pleasing God? Trusting God?

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Mercy very much can denote an attitude of compassion that reaches out to people who are suffering and hurting. Blind men followed Jesus and cried out for mercy. He healed them. A Canaanite woman sought mercy for her demonized daughter and Jesus delivered her. Likewise a father pleaded for mercy for his troubled son, and Jesus restored him.
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