We must not confuse the
command to love with the disease to please.
John 15:17 “These things I command
you, that ye love one another.”
Yep, that’s right…it’s a command.
Love one another. This is not
the easiest thing to do sometimes; especially, when the person is seemingly
“unlovable”. I’ve mentioned this before,
but I will again…God would never command us to do something that we are not
capable of. In an effort to show love
to others, we can get caught up in trying to make them happy no matter what. Galatians 1:10 says “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. “. We need to
recognize the difference in pleasing them to make them happy and loving them in
a true Biblical way. Loving someone in a
Biblical way could sometimes require “tough love”. This, of course, isn’t always popular.
Paul says in II Corinthians 12:15 “And I will very gladly spend
and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be
loved.”
Rather than concerning ourselves with trying to please others, we
should make sure that our concern is pleasing God and teaching others to please
him also.
1Thessalonians 4:1 says “Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you
by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to
please God, so ye would abound more and more.”
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