Pleasing
Dear children of God,
let us try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord? We always want
to please us or others in many things. But today let us try to discern and
learn how to please our Lord Jesus Christ? Pleasing ourselves and others brings
us shame and contempt; let us please God by doing what is good and right in the
sight of God. Lord, teach me to do what is pleasing in your sight. This should
be our prayer daily. What does the Lord
require to please him? With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself
before God on High? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a
year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams with the ten
thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first born for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has told us, O man, what is
good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to do love
kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
STUMBLE:- when Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of
Egypt I called my son. The more they were
called, the more they went away; return, O Israel to the Lord, for you have
stumbled because of your iniquity. Yet it was I who taught him to walk; I took
them up by their arms, but they have refused to return to me. Stumble in sins
or transgression means missing the mark. The iniquity of mankind is bound up
and his sin is kept in store. Thus says the Lord: when men stumble, do they not
rise again? When a baby stumble and fall, it looks around to seek his parent’s
help by crying, but if no one notice his stumbling, then the baby will resume
by rising up. If anyone turns away, does he not return? Why then have this
people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they
refuse to return. People give more importance to deceit than the truth. Every
one turns to his course, even the stork in the heavens knows the times, and the
turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people
know not the rules of the Lord. The fifth sense animals and birds know the ways
and rules of the Lord but the sixth sense human know not the ways and rules of
the Lord. We always do not accept the facts of what we have done. We coolly say
that sorry, without knowingly did this mistake. We have to stop praying that
without knowingly did this mistake. Like the prodigal son we have to accept the
facts and have to say that Father, we have sinned against heaven and before
you.
When prodigal son confessed his unworthiness
of being called as his son, but accept him as a servant of his own house. That pleased
his father to accept him as his own son by giving the blessings what we have
lacked. The prodigal son was lacked, when he has gone astray from his father’s
love and presence. When father was pleased, he ordered his servants to bring
him the best robe, and put on him and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his
feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
Dear children of God, we cannot please God by
offering sacrifices or offering our riches or wealth. God wants us to do what
is right and good in the sight of the Lord. What does the lord require from us,
but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God? Let us
discern and learn to what is pleasing to God? Dear friends if you have learnt
to please God, you will sure to receive the blessings and joy of celebration. Kindly
share the joy of celebration with others and send a word to my email ID. revsjc@gmail.com, revsjc12@hotmail.com, johnchelliah857@yahoo.com.
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