Thought of the Day !!

For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the one who examines the motives of our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NLT)

As Paul writes to the people of Thessalonica here, he is in the process of remembering his prior visit with them. He reminds them that he and his companions had nothing to hide and that their message was authentic. In doing so, he claims that their "purpose is to please God, not people."

This is something that we might claim as well. But our claim doesn't necessarily make it true. Oh I don't mean that we are lying when we say that our purpose is to please our God. I mean that we want it to be, but in reality we may be trying to please others or ourselves. And maybe we don't even realize it.

Of course this may not be the case with you. But shouldn't we all be willing to test ourselves daily to see just what our motives really are?

In the love of Christ,
greg