Do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

Galatians 1:10

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Andrew Garfield, who played Spider-Man on the big screen, recently spoke of the frustration of trying to please everyone connected with his movies. “The pressure to get it right, to please everyone…You end up pleasing no one, or everyone just a little bit.”

Whether we’re a movie star, a mother, a pastor, a coach, or the sales clerk in a department store, it’s frustrating to try to please everyone. According to the Bible, we should focus on pleasing God. Jesus said, “I always do those things that please Him” (John 8:29), and He is our example.

Obedience comes as the result of our desire to please the Lord. Is your life well-pleasing to Him? The apostle Paul said, “Brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God” (1 Thessalonians 4:1). Let’s abound in pleasing Him.

Everyone lives to please somebody. Most people live to please themselves.… Pleasing God ought to be the major motive of the Christian life.

Warren Wiersbe

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Genesis 21–23

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