DO YOU SERVE TO PLEASE OR TO APPEASE GOD? WE NEED TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN ORDER TO GET IT RIGHT.
TO PLEASE: Cause to feel happy and satisfied. To be pleased in or with, to approve; to have complacency in. Matthew 3:17 (Matthew 3:17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased”). This is the Voice we want to hear! To please God, is to love Him and His character and follow His example as He shows (in all truth) how much He love His Son and you and me). It is to know that His righteous law was written out of love for our wellbeing, unlike man’s laws, it never changes, but used wisely, will help us to maneuver across this land of injustice, sin, and hate. Also, when we put ourselves in the position of pleasing God, we learn of His Truth, the one that really matters, and are able to perform, righteously, his will, with an abundantly, amazing life, spiritual and natural. Pleasing God should be our goal, each and every day (that God chooses to allow us to wake up to) so as to become the object of his approval or praise.
As a child of the One and only True God, it means to be content and know that no matter what happens, you are fully satisfied in Jesus. This stand, in your faith, requires a whole lot of trust, belief, and hope that is second to none. Because our true commitment, to God, necessitate the need for our full-on faithfulness and dedication to fight against the art of deception offered by the world; pleasing God means displeasing man. It must be polished with God’s Word, Will, and Way (using Jesus as our pattern for life; one that has been tried and tested over the years) and interjected in our everyday life; once we receive it, it becomes a medicine that we do not need to refill but use at will. To follow Yashuah, Jesus’ example has proven to please YHWH, God, through the power of His (Yashuah, Jesus’), death, and resurrection. (1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness”. John 8:36 Jesus did not pay for our sins only in part: he paid for all our sins. “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed”).
We can say that pleasing God really started with the pleasing of Himself (Genisis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day). So, you see He doesn’t necessarily need us to please Him, He can do that Himself, because He is all, knowing, seeing, and being (Pantheism – which implies a lack of separation between people, things, and God, but rather sees everything as being interconnected). (Jeremiah 23:23-24 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD). I say that to say this, that God must love us because in reality He does not need us but love us more than we know and is pleased with His creation. Think about it. He did not have any of us to please Him in the beginning, so everything He created, called in to being, or breathed life into was good and pleasing to Himself. The tenderness of God the Father toward Jesus reveals His character. He describes Jesus as beloved and says that He is well pleased with Him. God’s love, even for His own Son, is central to who He is. It also adds heartbreak to the sacrifice God is making in offering the life of Jesus for the sins of humanity.
To please God, is to love his character, all that He has command, and His law. Pleasing God is to seek to perform his will, so that we may become the object of His approval and praise. It is to go about doing good and communicating with others while spreading His message (gospel) of His Son, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The tenderness of God the Father toward Jesus reveals His character. He describes Jesus as beloved and says that He is well pleased with Him. God’s love, even for His own Son, is central to who He is and what He expects from us as His children. It also bore the intense emotional grief and sorrow our God must have experienced from this great loss. Yet the heartbreak and sacrifice God made, when He offered the life of Jesus, His only Son, for the sins of humanity, shows us how pleased He was with His creation; His requirement from us is to please Him by being good and righteous stewards and servants, according to His word, will, and way.
For some of you, who feel that it is necessary and more important to be busy with the physical things (that which others can see you do) than with the spiritual, must come to realize that it is not so. To please our God, we, as true and those who profess to be, children of His, must get radical, (like the followers of other forms of worship that’s out there, who practice with total commitment) and commit yourself to Christ. Now is the time to declare our faith and commitment to YHWH, God, in Yashuah, Jesus’ name. In doing so, you will learn to see the broad road for what it is; how to say no to the world’s way of thinking, and at all times put forth your best effort to stand firm; our God, in Jesus’ name will do the rest. As you are walking circumspectly, with God) you must do a balancing act, with Jesus’ help, to do that which is just, honorable, righteous, and just down right against the world’s views; pleasing God, in Jesus’ name, and stay committed to be led by the Holy Spirit. (Colossians 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;)
Stop entertaining the notion that as long as you go through the motion of serving God, giving a little or a lot of your time and energy here and there, (doing work that is useless to not only God but also you), that it is enough to please Him; satisfy Him and His will for our service as His children, because it only appeases man. And get over yourselves by you nominating self as being the sacrificial lamb in every situation and circumstance (which most are caused by you) that arises; Jesus paid it all, one time! Amen! So that you will not feel you must offer yourself up by condemning self. Now don’t get me wrong God love us for our commitment and sometimes genuine sacrifices we make (for the good of our God, family, friends, and even enemies). But God, more than liking a good burnt offering and also sacrifice, mostly desires the utterly unconditional love of His children; first to love Him, to love themselves, and then to love all others. This way of pleasing Him is greater than all the offerings and sacrifices any of us can make. (Mark 12:33 – And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices).
TO APPEASE: pacify or placate by acceding to their demands. God does not put demands on His children (He has given us free will to choose as we please; although in some instances (especially in the very hard times, most feel the need to not be given the choice, I know I do) we would like for Him to step in and do it. And since He does not demand (but He expects) us, He does not want us to give Him false service, so as to make Him happy and satisfy Him. God wants us to please Him not appease Him. You know that to appease God means to do what we think is the right thing to do in order for us to get our check mark of approval from man, not Him. We follow after others and that which appears to be Truth but in all reality has become a legalistic way of serving and not one of true and dedicated service to God, in Jesus’ name. (Deuteronomy 13:1-3 1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul).
In what way are you serving God, to please Him or to appease Him. In our society today, it has become the latter. And most people do not see or know the difference. They think that if they attend church every Sunday or be in the building (there is good works and then there is busy work, Martha) that this will please God. Far from the truth. This is trying to appease God with a reflective effort of looking holy by engaging in busy work, work of no consequence when it comes to true service. Let’s look at Martha in Luke 10:41-42 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her).
You see, like Martha most of us are worried and overly considerate about all that is in front of us, the usually unnecessary involvement in thing we find ourselves entangled in, which will not help increase our knowledge in the Word nor does it warrant immediate attention. But it is the type of work that is fueled by a constant movement which we think must be done. Therefore, with such thoughts, circling around in our minds, we leave out the most important thing and that is the Good part; that part which rewards us with riches, of an unbelievable proportion of wisdom, knowledge, and the understanding of it all, all from pleasing not appeasing; God is good and He holds the key to being good all the time. (Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all, And His mercies are over all His works).
This magnitude of being a true servant, can only be obtain through the focus, service, and pleasing God. Mary chose to please God through being hungry for the Word, Jesus. She wanted to please God by knowing and understanding exactly what His Word, Jesus, was saying, what it truly meant, and what He expected from and of His children. While Martha chose to neglect this opportunity to get God’s Word from the Word, Himself, Jesus, and be busy doing that which the world expected; the things she thought would make her look more righteous, (outward service), to appease God (really to please man).
In conclusion we see that truly pleasing God is not what attending, Sunday school, worship service, bible study, or any of the other opportunities to serve, in your church affiliation, is all about. It is not an outward service with an inward motive; it is an inward revelation with an outward show and dedication. It is not fictitious nor phony, nor is it done for selfish gain or twisted to destroy. To please God is a privilege; to appease God is a lie. It is the true and righteous love you have for God, such that you will do whatever His word commands, say, and adhere to all of His promises because of that love. And I am quite certain that most would agree, that if we would ask the LORD, in Jesus’ name to work on us, the other part of the equation will come; be about doing what God, through Jesus, has instructed us to do, in His Word, we would always please Him. And stop wasting God’s time and your time and effort running around (like a chicken with its head cut off) trying to appease Him.
THESE ARE ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES CAPTURING THE THINGS WE ARE TO DO TO PLEASE OUR GOD AND THAT WHICH IS PLEASING TO GOD
1 John 3:22 – And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Hebrews 13:16 – But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Hebrews 11:6 – But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Romans 8:8 – So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:5 – For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans 12:2 – And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Proverbs 16:7 – When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Romans 12:1-2 – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Psalms 19:14 – Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Colossians 1:9-10 – For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Hosea 6:6 – For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Psalms 40:8 – I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
John 8:29 – And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
John 5:30 – I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 – But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
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