People-pleaser? God-pleaser?

Then the disciples came up and told him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?”

He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:12-14)

It seems that the disciples were bothered by the fact that the Pharisees were offended by Jesus’ words.

Jesus, on the other hand, was not so bothered.

The truth is, we can never please everyone. As the saying goes, the one who tries to please everyone ends up pleasing no one.

More importantly, we’ll find it impossible to please God. And so the question is, “Who are we seeking to please?”

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that we go out of our way to offend people. But there are times we can’t avoid it either.

People will get offended whenever we say or do anything that goes against their way of thinking.

But if we try to please the blind, we’ll follow them right into the pit.

I don’t want to do that.

The thing I want more than anything else is to hear my Abba say, “Well done.”

How about you?