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Jul 18, 2010

Living To Please Him - By Pat Stanton


Are you living your life totally committed to the will of God?

Are you living your life totally committed to the will of God?  Was Jesus really serious when He spoke about loving God with your whole life?  Well, I think that is exactly what He had in mind in Matthew 22:37.  "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."

How can we possibly live a life with this degree of devotion?  I think that there must be a spirit of submission to the rule and reign of the life of Jesus Christ.  Without this, we will not bend our knees or heart in prayer on a daily basis.  If we do not develop a life of prayer, then our knowledge of the Father's heart will be limited.  It is in prayer and up out of prayer that we receive the guidance to know the will of God.

We will learn to please the Father and to desire His will as we are loving the Son and yielding to the Holy Spirit.  As we love Him, we will live out His will.  Many times we want to do our will and then ask God to bless and direct.  But, I know that it works so much better when we quietly yield to His will.  "No man can serve two masters..." (Matthew 6:24a).Â