Is the life that you have pleasing to God? What if it isn't? John Piper writes, "What if you discovered (like the Pharisees discovered) that you had devoted your whole life to trying to please God, but all the while had been doing things that in God's sight were abominations?" "The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him (Prov. 15:8)."
God knows our thoughts, our characters, and where our hearts are. He is not afraid of where we are, or what we have become caught up in. He wants to lift us out of whatever troubles we find ourselves in, and bring us to a place that is glorifying to Him. God desires people to worship Him, because Christ really and truly is worthy it.
God emphasizes that our faith is never about what we can do for Him, because He is capable of so much more than we could ever give Him. Christ is interested in where our hearts are, and what we are trying to get from Him. As people, we do not typically want our lives to be difficult. We want our lives to be easy. Christ, however, wants our lives to be holy.
Christ is never interested in lip service, and He knows when we are pretending. If what we think we are doing for Him has burnt us out, then what is the point? If we are the servants of God, and God is love, then we are servants of love. If we are without love, then we are without God.
God delights in us, when we delight in Him.
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