30 Days To Greater FaithSample

After years of full-time Christian ministry, I have found that a major snare for many people is their fear of other people. So many people fail to make decisions or take action, because they are overly concerned about what family, friends, workmates or peers might think about them. Essentially, in such moments they are more concerned about what people think than what God thinks.

We cannot be people pleasers and simultaneously be God pleasers. In order to be obedient to God, we will have to be okay with disappointing some people or making decisions that they do not understand. Our fear of God must become bigger than our fear of man.

And no amount of temporal satisfaction or approval from others is worth compromising the destiny for which we have been created. 

Until we choose to be God pleasers above man pleasers, we will not walk in the fullness of the purpose and destiny that Jesus Christ has for our lives. Let’s determine to please our Lord more than each other or ourselves.