Why do you do the things that you do? Do you do them because they are what God would want you to do or do you do them to please people? Do you find yourself doing things and expecting a “thank you”, “good job”, “great job”, “you are doing a great job” or any other compliment? Let’s be honest about this.
Doesn’t it make you feel good when someone compliments something you are doing? When someone notices what you are doing and comments on it, doesn’t it give you a boost? Yes, it does and God teaches us to encourage one another.
“So encourage each other and build each other up,
just as you are already doing.”~~I Thessalonians 5:11
This is so true but it is our job to compliment and notice the good things others do and tell them. In other words, “give them their roses before they die”. We are not to compliment ourselves or brag about what we are doing it is the other person’s job.
We are not to expect this encouragement and compliments from others. Yes, the Bible tells us in the above verse to encourage one another but we cannot do things for that reason to get the compliments. Our motive to do good things for God is ONLY to be because it is to give God all the honor and glory. Leave it at that. That is enough to do it for God’s honor and glory. How God can bless us and take care of us for what we do for Him is more than any compliment or recognition could mean to our lives.
You have to be careful to keep God in the center of your life and keep your eyes on Him.
“So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” ~~ I Corinthians 10:31
Please read that verse again. It says to do it ALL for the glory of God! Not for your glory or for the glory from another person. We can easily fall into that awful pit of expecting someone to notice what we are saying or doing and if they don’t we get all down in the dumps and say, “Nobody appreciates anything that I do.” Well, to be blunt, it doesn’t matter what other people think. If we are constantly expecting others to compliment us then we are not able to be at peace because our insides will be all in turmoil. We will be fretting because no one is seeing what we are doing and no one cares about what we are doing. We are pulling ourselves down and causing depression, anger, bitterness, dissention to build inside us. This will cause more of these negative feelings to build inside each time you thing about no one noticing what you are doing. Therefore, your peace of mind is destroyed because you are depending on people to do what only God can do. All that matters is that we are doing it from the heart; with a love for Jesus; for the honor and glory of God; to show others the love of God; and to point others to Jesus.
If we get our eyes off of God and start looking at what we are doing then we are not pointing to Jesus; but saying “Look what I am doing or saying!” Our focus has been taken off of God and being put on ourselves leading to our work being done in vain.
Let’s don’t waste our lives living for other people and trying to please other people. If we do this we have not lived out our purpose in life that God intended for us to live. Our purpose in life is to bring God honor and glory and make him happy and proud he made us. We are to point other to Jesus and let them see Jesus in our lives and we can do that by be careful to do everything we do for God’s honor and glory.
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