Who Are You Trying To Please?
DAILY VITAMIN - Who Are You Trying To Please? "With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men." (Ephesians 6:7) If I may ask, why are you a Christian? Really I want to know, because I've figured a lot of people don't even know why they are what they are. A lot presume they are Christians because it's the only way to not get judged by their family members who are predominantly Christians. For some, it's because they don't want to go to hell. But as nice as that sounds, it's wrong. Being a Christian is beyond just pleasing people or avoiding hell. These come with the actions we take as Christians, at least the latter surely will. Anyway, being Christian is first about knowing God. Knowing Christ Himself. Peter says all the virtues and glory of this life comes from that knowledge (2 Peter 1:3). Paul showed that this was all that mattered when he said "That I may know Him..." (Philippians 3:10). So the aim of being Christian i