How to Please God Every Day

It seems easy to answer this question: How can we please God everyday? The easy answer is: You can please God simply by obeying him, loving him and serving him everyday.

The cynic may ask: Why do you still want to please God, when he is already God? He is perfect, he does not need anything. He does not need us in order to be himself. He does not need to be pleased.

People Do Want to Please God

On the other hand there are people everywhere, Christians and non-Christians, who desire to please God everyday. The proof of this is the daily attendance in church or temple services, whether Mass or other prayer services, or Bible study groups or prayer meetings, or rituals and sacrifices. Thousands upon thousands of people do want to please God.

To those who sincerely want to please God everyday, this article is addressed.

Pleasing God Is Not a Matter of Simply Obeying Him

To those who think that pleasing God is a simple matter of obeying him I have this observation to give. Deep within herself the human being knows that simply obeying God even in all his commandments does not really satisfy her, her desires and expectations in life. There is something more that she wants to do besides obeying God.

That is why we have that story of a man who approached Jesus and said that he had obeyed God's commandments since his youth but he wanted something more in his life. He expected Jesus to give this to him, what seemed lacking in his life.

The reply of Jesus was that he was to sell all he had, give the proceeds to the poor, and follow him. At this point this man was torn between following God all the way or clinging to his earthly possessions. He chose the latter. He decided not to please God.

Thus pleasing God is not as simple as obeying his commandments. There is something more required. Pleasing God everyday is not so easy and simple. When the man was given the chance to please God, he chose to please himself by clinging to his possessions. It was most difficult for him to please God.

How To Really Please God Everyday

How then do we please God everyday? Obviously it starts with obeying him, his laws and rules as revealed to us in books written under his inspiration, like the Bible, and as made known to our mind during prayer time and outside of prayer time. This is the minimum requirement in pleasing God but it is not the full requirement.

There is a fuller, deeper way of pleasing God, a way that he desires all of us to have because it is a way which also most satisfies our yearning to please God. Stated simply it is this: We please God everyday by enjoying him everyday. Or to put it in another way, God is most pleased with us everyday if we enjoy him more and more everyday.

The idea of enjoying God may seem new to most people but it is a dimension of our life which most of us lack. We were taught to obey God, to fear him, to love him, to serve him. But to enjoy God was not taught or given emphasis during our early years in learning about God.

We enjoy good food, a warm relationship, a beautiful sight, but to say that we enjoy God seems not heard of or not proper.

But if we come to think of it seriously, the reason why God wants us to fear him, to obey him, love him and serve him, is in order that we may come to enjoy him. This can be proved by looking at the nature of things.

If we reflect on the nature of things around us, we can conclude sooner or later that they are there for us to enjoy: the taste of good food, the comfort of our clothing, the safety of our homes, our good health, our educational attainment, our successes in life. If this is so, if these things are enjoyable, shall we not conclude that the one who ultimately created all these things is also an enjoyable being? For where did these things get their quality of being enjoyable if not from their source, their creator?

Therefore God is the supremely enjoyable being. When Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, realized this, he exclaimed, "O Beauty, so ancient and so new, too late have I loved you!"

God Is in Everything We See and Do

But how can we enjoy God everyday when we have so many things to do? We have work at home, in the field, in the offices, in the institutions we work. The answer to this question is: In the very things that we do we enjoy God, even in the very pots and pans in the kitchen, as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada once wrote.

There is a prayer in the book called The Book of Privy Counseling which expresses this truth clearly and yet very briefly. The prayer runs this way: "That which I am and have, I offer to you, O Lord, for you are it entirely." In other words God is what I am and have. (But do not reverse the subject and predicate, saying, what I am and have is God. This would be pantheism, the belief that everything is God.) God is in me and in everything I see, think, say and do.

When we realize this, that God is in everything, then we can enjoy God in everything. And enjoying him we please him. We enjoy God every day and we shall please him every day. For this is what he desires of us to do, that we simply enjoy him. And in enjoying him we please him most.

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How to Be Obedient to God

At first thought there seems to be no reason why there should be any difficulty in being obedient to God. After all almost all of us, exempting only hard core atheists and agnostics, believe that God created us and everything around us. It is only natural and proper that we obey him.

The Difficulty of Obeying God

But the fact of the matter is that most find it difficult, if not downright impossible, to obey God. The proof of this is the violence, crimes, discord and misunderstanding we find all around us. If people have no difficulty or not finding it impossible to obey God, then we would not have these terrible problems of peacelessness all around us. All would be obeying God and all would be in harmony with God and with one another.

Why We Need To Obey God

But before we can discuss how to be obedient to God we have to discuss a bit about the why. Why do we need to be obedient to God? The reasons are so simple and yet so difficult to really internalize in our life.

We need to be obedient to God because ultimately we came from him, ultimately we are going back to him and because ultimately everything that happens in this world happens according to his will.

We need to be obedient because we came from God. He alone knows of what stuff we are made of and for what purpose we are made. So obeying him is simply natural since he alone knows where we are heading in life to. We do not know the direction of our life really. Only God knows. So, obeying him is the safest way to conduct ourselves in life.

We need to be obedient because we are going back to God. At the end of it all we are going to face him and he is going to ask us how we have lived. It would be most unwise to answer that we lived our lives disobeying him. The best answer we can give him is that we lived our lives according to the pattern he set for us, simply obeying him.

We need to be obedient to God because everything that happens around us is ultimately due to his will. So if we insist on disobeying this will we will be the losers. He will win anyway at the end of the game. So, why go against him? It is better to obey him and win with him at the end.

Having very briefly discussed why we need to obey God, let us now go to the how. How are we to be obedient to God?

How Are We To Obey God

We are to be obedient to God by knowing more and more of him. There are people who say that God made this world and everything on it and left it to operate according to the laws he put therein. These people claim that God is impersonal. He may just be a Supreme Force that works in the affairs of men and nations by laws which he put in these affairs.

But if we try to know more and more of this God we will find that he is not just a force. He is a person. He is a God who is most interested in all our affairs. But again we will not come to know this aspect of God if we do not care to advance in our personal knowledge of him.

And how are we going to know more of God so that we can obey him with love and affection? We can look at the things he created and reflect on his goodness, power and wisdom. We can read the books that are written about him in all the religions of the world, not just in the Christian Bible. Then we can get acquainted with people who we know are very close to God and ask them about God. Certainly they can tell us more about God. And we can get down to our knees or sit down and converse with God as with a friend. He will tell us more about himself.

Secondly, after knowing more of God, we can obey him gladly and not with constraint. Sometimes we feel that some of his commandments are unfair, like loving our enemies. But if we really know God, this will no longer be a problem. We will know God is most fair, making his sun shine and his rain fall on his friends and enemies. Knowing that God is most fair, we will not force ourselves to obey God. We will joyfully obey God.

Thirdly, as we get to know more of God, and as we continue to obey him gladly, we will love him more and more and our obedience will be just an expression of our love for him. We will obey him, not because we fear him, as maybe our teachers in religion have taught us (threatening us with hell if we didn’t obey), but we will obey God because we love him.

Then if we obey God because we love him, we shall be obeying the greatest commandment of all: To love God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul and with all our strength.

How are we to be obedient to God? We are to be obedient to God by knowing more of him, by gladly obeying him and by loving him. In return God will give us the best which he has in store for us.

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Here are my other blogs which may be of help to you:

http://bit.ly/spiritdev for your spiritual growth

http://bit.ly/alterhealthcare for your health

http://bit.ly/novotrends for learning about the new trends around us

http://bit.ly/bepaidonline for earning some income from the Internet

Here are your links to download the e-books for FREE. To download a copy of A NEW CHRIST by Wallace D. Wattles click this website http://bit.ly/anewchrist. To download a free copy of A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle click this website http://bit.ly/ebookanewearth. I hope that you enjoy reading these free e-books and profit much from them, as I have also profited greatly from them.