Pleasing People
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This week I’ve thought a lot about my desire to make people happy. For much of my life my tendency has been to respond with whatever would make the person I’m in relationship the happiest. It’s really not a great way to live. With it comes tons of guilty feelings as well as being stuck in situations and representing positions that I really have no passion or desire for.
It’s a very strange place to be in. Everyday I see more of it in my life and yet I don’t really know what to do to change it.
Strange.
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Man, I am totally the same way, and I’m not saying that to just agree, I really am! It is frustrating though.
Comment by adamhann September 28, 2007 @ 9:15 pmPerhaps we can focus our allegiances primarily (or maybe solely?) on God and His Truth. I don’t think we can go wrong serving God first and foremost, serving others second, and then fulfilling our own needs and desires last.
And I feel you on the guilt and precarious positions. While it’s often severely discomforting and incredibly difficult, sometimes the best (and maybe only) way to truly love someone with the love of Christ is to say “no” or hold a person accountable for their words and deeds which don’t line up with God’s Word.
What do you think?
Comment by Bill October 7, 2007 @ 9:50 pm