Daily Rhema: Pleasing God

Proverbs 16:13 AMPC
Right and just lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

The scripture tells us that we receive from God when we:
Keep His commandments

Do what pleases Him.

1 John 3:22 ESV
..and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Observe that what pleases God may not necessarily be an explicit commandment. For instance, David’s decision to build the temple was not a commandment, but was extremely pleasing to God (2Sam. 7:1-9, 11-16).

This same truth can be expressed as: what is lawful is what is commanded; but what is expedient is what is pleasing in God’s sight (1Cor. 6:12).

So to please God, we go beyond just doing what we are commanded to do and in addition do what is pleasing in His sight.

How then do we know what is pleasing to Him, since He would not have commanded us to do it?

We get to know what is pleasing in His sight by getting to understand His character: lovingkindness, righteousness and justice through His written Word as revealed by the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV
Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.”

So we please God by staying in close fellowship with the Holy Spirit through the Word, to receive what is pleasing in His sight and then we do those things that are pleasing in His sight, by the power of the Holy Spirit (John16:13-14).

Practically, we do this by frequently ‘washing our feet’ (at least once every six hours – Mk. 13:35), frequently acknowledging the Holy Spirit in our thinking (at least once every conscious hour – Mt. 24:42) for mercy unto eternal life, praying in tongues frequently throughout the day as often as is practicable (1Cor. 14:18) and habitual daily balanced bible reading.

This is what the Lord Jesus Himself did:
John 8:29 ESV
And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

It is for this reason the Lord Jesus received mercy to triumph always!

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