Devotion Day 2

Today's Devotion:

‭Galatians 1:10 NIV‬

[10] Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. 

Reflection:

As a human being, yes, I'm guilty of winning the approval of other people. Since  childhood, I always look forward to the approval of my parents and of my neighboring friends. In classroom, I also seek the approval of my teachers and of my classmates. Until I had a job, I still wanted the approval of the heads and even of my colleagues about myself. I think everyone does, but, is it worth it?

Is it worth it living my whole life trying to please other people? How much does it values my life after getting the approval of other people. What does it add into my life? 

When I feel appreciated, my dopamine hormone increases and makes me feel happy. Especially on how we use the social media today just to get the approval and acceptance of other people through their reactions and comments from our post, no matter how fake our posts can be.

Why do we want it? because we wanted to feel loved. And we feel loved when we feel accepted by other people in a group or in our community.

So, when the people whom we are trying to get the satisfaction of feeling loved and accepted failed to do so, then what?

We get mad at them, got angry and felt betrayed. Most of the times, it is the cause of hatred. 

Years will pass for hundreds and thousands of year, by then, we will be buried with all our friends and family and no one will get to remember the hardships and sacrifices we did to other people for the sake of being loved and accepted. And by then, the only remains forever is the Lord Jesus Christ, yet during our lifetime, we never tried to pleased the Lord and serve Him but instead chosen the people whom we lived that will also die with us as well.

And an insight just came to me that whatever it is that you gave to the Lord our God, He multiplies it. Through Jesus' lifetime, he gave whatever it is that the people offered to Him. Like the loaves of bread and the fishes supplied by a boy and were multiplied by Jesus to feed the thousands of people.

Serve the Lord by using the time you have for His glory, and God will give you more time in this lifetime.

If you give Jesus your life, your life will be restored for you and you will live forever.

‭Matthew 10:39 NIV‬

[39] Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

If you commit to the Lord whatever that you do, He will establish your plans.

‭Proverbs 16:3 NIV‬

[3] Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.

Offer your tithes to the Lord, and He will multiply it into wealth and riches.

‭Malachi 3:10 NIV‬

[10] Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 

There is nothing to regret in this lifetime serving the Lord with everything you have. Jesus is everything we need. After all, the people we loved so much whom we always tried to please and serve will soon come along with us on the grave, all of us together. We are nothing without our Lord Jesus. At the end, we will all pass away and become dust of this world. 

The opportunity of living today is a gift from God, if not, we will all be just dirt of this world. The time God gave us, is the time must spent for Him and not for anybody else. Everything came from him, and nothing from anyone of us. Even the greatest most influential person of the greatest lifetime fade away from this world, but the Lord reigns and still remains forever and ever with or without us.