Remember learning how to ride your bike, roller skate, or even tie your shoes....how you just wanted to prove to your mom/dad that you can do it? Remember how as you continued to grow and develop there were other things that you wanted to do to please or show them your love or independancy in your abilities. Maybe it was cooking your first breakfast in bed for them, or arranging a lifelong vacation trip to honor them....whatever it was you so wanted their approval.
As adults do we still desire the approval of our parents, our bosses, our spouses, our children, our co-workers, etc? How draining that can be everyday to get up seeking the approval of all of these people, who of course (we tell ourselves) want different things, and have a variety of expectations (many of them unfair)....that leaves each of us frustrated and exhausted day after day, until we have a mental/nervous breakdown.
If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired: I submit to you this option: STOP TRYING to please EVERYBODY! Focus on what Christ told us is really our top priority....LOVE GOD FIRST (let everything you do be done out of LOVE for Him) and as a result of this loving relationship you for Him, and Him lavishing you with His you will become sensitive for His love for ALL OTHERS, which will empower you to secondly LOVE PEOPLE. So that each day is filled with opportunities to experience and show the LOVE of GOD that leaves your days much more fulfilling and less tiring and or stressful. Simply put LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE! Be BLESSED!
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