1Co10

Is God pleased with me? Is God pleased with you? Paul writes that God was "not please" with most of the Jews who called themselves "his people". They were immoral. They lived to please themselves. They tested God. They were ungrateful complainers. Paul sums up their lives as "idolaters". They worshiped themselves rather than truly worshiping God.

These are hard words! Today, we live in a time where most believers have very few thoughts about God! Much less those who consider themselves unbelievers. Most of us continue to live for ourselves even when clearly confronted with God's desires. Take this verse for example: v. 24, "No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person." Who do you know that actually lives like that?!

Yet, we walk around with the general feeling that "God is pleased with me". I am convicted. It's hard to change. Try to live just one day with someone other than yourself as the focus of your activity. It will be a challenge.

Live to please God. Live in a way that is pleasing to Him.