“The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.” Red Auerbach
“In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.” Is.26.8 ESV
If you ask most people whose opinion matters most, most would say either their family or the Lord’s. Now I think we really want to believe that God’s opinion matters most, but truthfully, we still struggle with plying for the approval of people. This is not always a bad thing. Consider the encouragement; “Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. Another place in the Bible records these words, “I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.” But this same apostle warned us that we should not live “by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.” I think the idea is that God is pleased when we seek what is best for those around us without thinking of ourselves at all. There is a vast difference in the person who serves his neighbor to highlight the value of God in Christ and one who does good so that His neighbor will think highly of him. Both may perform the same task in the same way with the same level of skill and enthusiasm. But the motive of one is genuine love for their neighbor that ultimately results in the praise of God, and the other his own vanity. 12/23/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
