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How do I live in a way that is pleasing to God alone?

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The root of most interpersonal problems is our selfishness in wanting our own way. We have to make a conscious choice to deny self on a daily basis. Also, we must actively do good and pursue peace with others. But you get the idea. We are to take the initiative to do all we can to restore strained relationships. We figure that time will heal.

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Of course, love covers a multitude of sins 1 Pet. We should absorb it if we can. I want to live in a way that pleases Him. Thus, to do good in our walk, we must turn from evil selfishness and pursue peace. Harmonious —A harmonious person seeks to get along with others.

How do I live in a way that is pleasing to God alone?

He accepts people as Christ accepts them. He knows the difference between biblical absolutes, which must not be compromised, and gray areas, where there is latitude for difference. He gives people time to grow, realizing that it is a process. Both partners are seeking to conform their lives to the Word of God. Thus they are on the same team, with the same outlook and interests.

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“For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your Being right with God is a matter of your response to what God has done on your Thank You for Your wonderful grace and forgiveness – the gift of eternal life!. The one way to get right with God and go to heaven is revealed in the Bible, which can be a life after this life, they think their own way of getting to heaven ( previous page) is “good The problem is that we can not be perfect, it is impossible.

Mutual submission to God and His Word is crucial for harmony, whether in the home or in the church. We are to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep Rom. We are to allow the sufferings of others to touch our emotions.

We should do all we can to make him or her feel accepted and loved. It points to the fact that as believers we are members of the same family. Often an opportunity to be brotherly toward another person opens the door for witness about our Lord Jesus Christ. Others should sense that we genuinely care for them from our hearts.

This quality was not seen as a virtue by pagan writers in Bible times. It was Christians who elevated it as a virtue. In our day, Christian writers seem to have reverted to the pagan ways, since almost every book dealing with relationships says that you must learn to love yourself and boost your self-esteem before you can love others. But the Bible clearly teaches that we must lower, not raise, our estimate of ourselves if we want harmonious relationships Phil.

Did you know that there is not one verse in the entire Bible that commands us to love ourselves? There are several verses that affirm that we do love ourselves and that command us to love others as much as we do in fact love ourselves. But there are many verses that say that selfishness and pride thinking too highly of ourselves are sources of our conflicts, and that we must esteem others more highly than ourselves see Phil. Thus the good life results from healthy relationships which result from doing good in our walk: Do you want the good life?

Peter brings out three aspects to doing good in our talk:. This principle runs counter to the world and to much of the advice being given in the Christian world. Stand up for your rights! Let them know that you have more self-respect than that!

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Say something kind to them in return. There are proper times to state your point of view and speak the truth in a calm manner. Instead, respond with kind words. Peter says that we should stop our lips from speaking guile 3: Deception is a barrier to communication and healthy relationships, since it destroys trust. It may be a deliberate attempt to bend the facts to suit your side of the story.

It may be telling a person one thing to his face, but saying another thing behind his back. That way, people side with you against the person you are slandering. It may be exaggeration: I realize that there are difficult situations where it is hard to be honest. Do you tell a dying relative the truth about his condition? But I argue that truthfulness is always the best policy.

Thus, negatively, doing good in our talk means not retaliating and not deceiving. As Paul puts it, we are to speak the truth in love Eph. We are to speak words which build up, not which tear down. If we would apply this in our homes—not trading insults, not deceiving, but speaking words that build up the other person—we would put marriage and family counselors out of business.

Think about your speech in your family this past week.

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How much of it was sarcastic, critical, angry, accusatory? And how much was aimed at blessing and building up your family members? When I was in college, I met each week for dinner and a discipleship time with a group of guys. Much of our time was spent bantering back and forth with funny comments to make the other guy look bad.

Empty, distracted, meandering, and dissatisfied, we come to him for help.

Are You Chasing Happiness or Holiness?

Fill us, we ask, with a sense of completeness! Give us a sense of direction amid the mass of competing ways and voices in the modern world! Fill the aching emptiness within! This is how many in the church today, especially in the evangelical church, are thinking.

It is how they are praying. They are yearning for something more real within themselves than what they currently have. This is true of adults and of teenagers as well. Yes, we say earnestly, hopefully, maybe even a little wistfully, be to us the God of love! Those who live in this psychological world think differently from those who inhabit a moral world. In a psychological world, we want therapy ; in a moral world, a world of right and wrong and good and evil, we want redemption. In a psychological world, we want to be happy.

In a moral world, we want to be holy. In the one, we want to feel good but in the other we want to be good. God stands before us not as our Therapist or our Concierge. He stands before us as the God of utter purity to whom we are morally accountable. He is objective to us and not lost within the misty senses of our internal world.

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His Word comes to us from outside of our self because it is the Word of his truth. It summons us to stand before the God of the universe, to hear his command that we must love him and love our neighbors as ourselves. He is not before us to be used by us. He is not there begging to enter our internal world and satisfy our therapeutic needs.

Faithfulness in the hidden

We are before him to hear his commandment. And his commandment is that we should be holy, which is a much greater thing than being happy. It is true that there are psychological benefits to following Christ, and happiness may be its by-product. These, though, are not fundamentally what Christian faith is about. It is about the God who is other than ourselves, who is the infinite and gracious God. God self-exists outside of us. He is the wholly pure Creator to whom all creatures will give an account. When in doubt, glance at the Redwoods of the church: Two in particular can help us respond to the modern attempt to separate happiness from holiness so cleanly.

For example, Thomas Brooks — authored a page book under the apt title: The Crown and Glory of Christianity: Happiness is nothing but the quintessence of holiness.

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When our holiness is perfect, our happiness shall be perfect; and if this were attainable on earth, there would be but little reason for men to long to be in heaven.