WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO PLEASE?

By Iyekekpolo Nosa

Financial adviser Suze Orman Warns: “If you feel the need to impress people with what you have rather than who you are, you are at high risk for credit card abuse." Similarly, if you claim to be a child of God, a Christian and feel the need to impress people rather than God, you are at high risk of abusing and losing the gift of eternal life that you are being offered by God.

Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Gal 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

The desire to impress is inbuilt and powerful in all living things. A person or organism that doesn't have anyone or anything to impress- even if it is self, will be lacking in motivation, zeal and the will to live. As Christians, we should be moved, motivated and zealous to please or impress God! Not that we can really impress Him with anything in the first place, but the desire to please Him, to live by His set rules of conduct and speech should be the most important drive in our lives

2Co 5:15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Who and with what we wish to impress, determines whether we become slaves or obtain freedom. If we desire freedom - the ability to truly live for ever, then we must earnestly desire to please God with who we are. Who are we supposed to be?

Paul said it succinctly in 1 Cor 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

So we are supposed to be Christ like.

Iyekekpolo Nosa is a Young Adult in the Benin City Congregation. A student of Electrical Electronics Engineering at the University of Benin.