We Must Please God Rather Than Men Of The World
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To Please God Is The Priority Of Christians
Recently, I wrote a series of articles criticizing the Jews that didn’t please the world, nor my fellow Catholics.
One response I gave was to remind my brethren that the Saints were not politically correct.
My fellow Catholics are still offended, though, so I am writing to make my next point.
That is, us Catholics must please God rather than men of the world.
Let us remember the words of St. Paul:
If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10
It is true that as servants of Christ we should defend Him, and while wanting the conversion of His enemies, we should call out their diabolical behavior.
For, again, it is true what St. Paul says:
Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:
Colossians 3:23
But “I am afraid”, you say. To this, Scripture says:
He that feareth man, shall quickly fall: he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be set on high.
Proverbs 29:25
And to those who fear the disapproval of men, the Prophet Isaias says:
Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.
Isaias (Isaiah) 51:7
Moreover, Jesus Christ Himself says to those who continue to fear men over God:
And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 10:28
Therefore, it is God we must fear and not man.
This test of fear is God’s doing to verify we truly want to please God over man, as St. Paul writes:
Even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who proveth our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
Thus, to pass the test, us Christians must love the glory of God more than the glory of men, as Scripture says of the Pharisees that rejected Christ:
For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
John 12:43
Therefore, we must love the glory that comes for God alone, as Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, admonishes otherwise:
How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?
John 5:44
And what do we do when God asks us to be displeasing to men? St. Peter and the Apostles tell us:
We ought to obey God, rather than men.
Acts of Apostles 5:29
And this echoes what the Prophet Isaias said about not caring to please men over God:
Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.
Isaias (Isaiah) 2:22
Moreover, if what you do pleases the Lord, Scripture says:
When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.
Proverbs 16:7
Because if we don’t focus on pleasing God before men, the Prophet Jeremias says:
Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
Jeremias (Jeremiah) 17:5
Let us sacrifice even what pleases us to God, as St. Paul writes:
And I live, now not I; but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
And also:
I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.
Romans 12:1-2
Therefore, we should pay no mind to pleasing men, and focus on pleasing God, as St. Paul says:
And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.
2 Corinthians 5:9
And also:
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
In conclusion, let us therefore be like the Martyrs of the Early Church that wouldn’t even burn one grain of incense for Caesar.
Let us please God rather than men, even unto martyrdom.