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Honey From The Rock Psalm 81:16 |
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WHAT PLEASES GOD? This entry was posted on 06-30-2008 and is filed under uncategorized. When I was a little boy I tried to figure out what pleased my father and mother. As I grew older that became more apparent. My mom wanted a son who kept his room tidy! My dad wanted a son who did a job right. Still later I learned what brought pleasure to my parents - a son who first of all did what pleased the Heavenly Father.
Our text today reads: "Let your lives be living proofs of the things which please God" (Eph. 5:10 The NT in Modern English). Weymouth's translation reads, "Learn in your own experience what is fully pleasing to the Lord." This is the theme we have been on ever since January when we began with Romans 12. When we offer our lives as living sacrifices to God and are transformed by the renewing of our minds "then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will" (Rom. 12:1-3 NIV). The context will tell us what pleases God - living and acting as children of light. Tomorrow it will tell us what surely does not please Him - taking part in the deeds of darkness. God does not leave us in the dark as to what pleases Him. He has given us His very Word to read, study, ponder, delve into, meditate upon, and most of all, live out in our lives. The 10 Commandments, the Beatitudes, indeed, the Sermon on the Mount, the faith chapter (Heb. 11), the love chapter (1 Cor. 13), on an on the list of "recommended reading" could go. God is pleased when he sees faith working by love. Prayer: Lord, let my life be a living proof of the things which please You! |
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