DAILY?READINGS: Gen. 40; Psalm 18:1-29; Matt. 23
Whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. 2 Samuel 3:36b
If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Gal. 1:10b
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7
Each of us lives to please someone! Either we want to please ourselves, or others, or God. Sadly, we spend far too much time and energy today trying to please ourselves and others. Sometimes we’re successful, and sometimes not. We know it pleases God when we live for Him—studying and obeying His Word. May we all have an ever increasing desire to please the one who purchased us with His own blood. —William Gustafson
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way;
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. —John H. Sammis