Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent,

to be well pleasing to Him.

2 Corinthians 5:9.

Another translation reads:

Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. 

Paul declares that the aim of the Christian life is to please Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach, who in turn, is well-pleased with His followers.

Messiah’s heart fills with joy when He sees us walking in the paths in which He would have us go because as the scripture says:

John 4 :34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.

And we are to do likewise:

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life. 

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them. 

We are to be like David who said in Ps 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law/teaching is within my heart.

Some translations use the word accepted in this verse, which is also correct. The use of the word pleasing or well pleasing, suggests a more intimate relationship between ourselves and our Heavenly Father and Messiah. One that, as we are obedient to His will for our lives with a willing, humble heart of love and adoration; His response would be a loving joyful one which pleases Him greatly.

Ps 37:4

Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the L ORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it. 

Taking delight in the Lord means that our hearts truly find peace/shalom and fulfillment in His plans for us.

Ps 147:10,11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. ESV

His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His steadfast love.

The pleasure Messiah has in them that fear Him/reverently respect Him, and in them that hope in His mercy’ and do His will; is what fills His heart as He looks at those who are following His instructions as His disciples. This well pleased demeanor will be clearly revealed in the day of final judgment.

Matt. 25:23.  His lord said unto him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of your Lord.

The word pleasing and pleasure are related, and we read in Revelation 4:11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

In this kind of pleasure that is spoken of in verse 11 “and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created”, lies the key to finding our purpose in life. We were created to provide our Heavenly Creator Father with the pleasure of being involved in our lives, of providing for us, of interacting with us and communicating with us; and when are in harmony with Him, flowing together with His plans, we are pleasing to Him.

So many people struggle with feelings of insecurity, a poor self image and low self-worth, and question just what is our purpose in life; and many spend much time, effort and resources trying to find answers to their questions.

Truthfully, the key to finding our purpose is found in this verse:

“For you created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created.” Rev. 4:11.

This is our ultimate purpose, we were created for His pleasure! However this doesn’t this mean we are simply playthings in His hands.

Looking at the word “pleasure” from a worldly perspective, we may be inclined to think that we are just one of His hobbies. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the Bible describes the God of Creations’ relationship with us as that of a Father:

Psalm 103:13 is clear on that.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him, and the same theme runs through the whole Bible, leading to the free and wonderful gift of Salvation.

God, is the perfect Father and is actively involved in our affairs and because He is, the concept of being created for God’s pleasure can perhaps be better understood from the position of a parent.

Being a parent is not meaning that parents should “play” with those placed in their care, or that they should use them for their own selfish reasons.

Instead, loving parents will take pleasure and find fulfillment in being connected to and involved with their children, by acting on their behalf for what is in their best interest, in communicating with them, in giving them guidance and in being actively involved in their lives. There is a subtle difference, but any caring parent will understand that the idea of, taking pleasure in our children is completely unselfish.

This is the kind of pleasure that is spoken of in Revelation 4:11 “and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created”, and again, herein lies the key to finding our purpose in life. We were created to provide God with the pleasure of being involved in our lives, of providing for us, of interacting with us and communicating with us.

When we do the following things, we are bringing pleasure to our Heavenly Father and fulfilling His purpose for us.

When we actively pursue a relationship with God;

allow Him to be our provision, our Rock, our help in time of trouble;

make the effort to spend time with Him;

and

seek His will for our lives,

It is not important where we are in our walk in life, or if we have even discovered His direction for our lives. It is more important that in our search for purpose, we can be certain that when we make an effort to spend time with, and put our trust in Him, allowing Him to be our provision and our strength, we are fulfilling our purpose in life.

The best part being that, when we make it our first priority to bring pleasure to our Heavenly Father, we are opening the door for Him to provide us with guidance and knowledge of His will.

It is this decision of the individuals will, to place Messiah and His will for us above all other choices in life.

For each individual believer we should be able to say we live

that I may please Him-

It is not doctrines, denominations, creeds, opinions, professions, or even a faith that simply trusts in Him for salvation, that makes a true believer in Messiah Jesus/Yeshua..

We are believers/Christians/disciples in the exact measure in which Messiah’s will is positioned and important in our lives; and without a doubt, the common characteristic of all real believers/Christians/disciples, is summed up in this verse,

‘We labour that whether present or absent we may be well-pleasing to Him.’

We are to make it our goal, and it requires a conscious decision and a sustained effort to keep this goal always in front of us. It means we are to hold ourselves to the highest standard, moment by moment, day in and day out.

This is a commitment which is not making our first priority to win souls, or to plant churches, or to have revivals, but seeking only to be well pleasing to Him. A lack of spiritual experience is not what leads to failure, it is a lack of working to keep our eyes focused on the right goal.

We should examine ourselves before the Father at least once a week, to check if our lives are measuring up to the standard He has set for us. We think nothing of weekly putting out our trash, rubbish and garbage for collection. Things we no longer need, want or require. Items that are dirty, broken, unclean and no longer a part of our lives needs. This has a spiritual significance as we can expel any spiritual trash that has accumulated during the week, keeping this house/our physical house and all our spiritual aspects cleansed with the Blood of Messiah by not giving place to anything we would not want Him to see we have.

Anything we take on, that distracts us even to the smallest degree from the main goal of being approved to God 2 Tim. 2:15; may have an impact on how we are used in His service going forward. When we discern where the goal is leading us, we will understand why it is so necessary to keep, looking unto Yeshua/Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:2. Paul spoke of the importance of controlling his own body so that it would not take him in the wrong direction. He said: I discipline my body and bring it into subjection lest I myself should become disqualified. 1 Cor. 9:27

We must learn to do the same, and relate everything to the primary goal, maintaining it without interruption.

Our public worth to our Heavenly Father is measured by what we really are in our private life. Is our primary goal in life to please and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how spiritual it may sound to ourselves and others?

In Phil. 4:10 Paul said

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection.

This is a very serious statement and should not be prayed or declared lightly, because the next few words hold immense sobriety for the individual…

the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 

The Amplified Bible reads:
And this, so that I may know Him [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of His Person more completely] and [in that same way experience] the power of His resurrection [which overflows and is active in believers], and [that I may share] the fellowship of His sufferings, by being continually conformed [inwardly into His likeness even] to His death [dying as He did];

In the Aramaic Bible in Plain English:
That by it I may know Yeshua and the power of his resurrection, and that I may share in his sufferings and be conformed with his death,

And the power of his resurrection, this was a glorious manifestation of Divine power Romans 1:4. That resurrection power is now the power in the believers spiritual life: it stimulates the spiritual resurrection from the death caused by sin unto the life of righteousness. Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12.

And the fellowship of His sufferings.

According to the best manuscripts, there is a very close connection between these words and the previous ones,

Romans 8:17; 2 Timothy 2:11, 12.

To know the quickening power of His resurrection, we must share His sufferings.

As we meditate on the sufferings of our Savior we begin to feel a deeper, a more real understanding of what He experienced. This in turn will help to prepare us if, when we are called to suffer, we are to take it patiently, looking unto Messiah Yeshua/Jesus, then our sufferings will become united with His sufferings, “we suffer with him.” And he who hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows feels for us having been touched with the feeling of our infirmities.

This fellowship in suffering leads us through by His grace, to fellowship with Him in glory.

 2 Corinthians 4:10; Romans 6:5. 

Being made conformable unto his death; rather, becoming conformed. The means it is now, in the present: it implies a continual progress. It is taken from the word μορφή, meaning: form, used in Philippians 2:6, and indicates, not just an external resemblance, but a deep, inner conformity. The reference here is not to a death by martyrdom, but to that daily dying to the world and to self, which Paul declared when he said that he was “crucified with Christ” Galatians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 15:31. 

The true servant and disciple of Messiah is committed to Him first before anything or anyone else; and to the Fathers will, plan and purpose.

Today we should ask ourselves…Is it our primary goal as His servant, to be well pleasing to Him?

 

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Peace to friends and family.

 

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are very precious in His sight.

Not sure ..you can be…

SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,

SAY IT RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.