Paul writes: \u2018We make it our goal to please Him\u2026 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due to us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.\u2019<\/i> (2 Corinthians 5:9\u201310 NIV) If pleasing people is your main goal in life, you\u2019ll be disappointed. The moment you stop pleasing them, chances are they\u2019ll criticise you or leave you. Plus, they<\/i> won\u2019t be with you when you stand at the judgment seat of Christ to be evaluated and rewarded! <\/p>\n
Bottom line: you\u2019re not assigned to everybody<\/i>! So once you discover your God-given gift, ask, \u2018Lord, to whom are You sending me?\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u2018One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: \u201cDo not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.\u201d So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the Word of God.\u2019<\/i> (Acts 18:9\u201311 NIV) To whom has God sent you? As surely as a plant only thrives in the right kind of soil, you\u2019ll only succeed in the place to which God has assigned you. Peter did well preaching to the Jewish people, whereas Paul writes, \u2018God\u2026 was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles.\u2019<\/i> (Galatians 1:15\u201316 NIV) <\/p>\n
You must love people, and listen to the right people. But when it comes to your calling\u2014you must be led by God! So go where He sends you and trust Him to take care of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paul writes: \u2018We make it our goal to please Him\u2026 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due to us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.\u2019 (2 Corinthians 5:9\u201310 NIV) If pleasing people is your main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}