Yes or No?

Sometimes, I don’t even debate with this two words, must of the time I just say “Yes” to everybody and everything, but I learn in the hard way, as most lessons that we learn, that “Yes” is not always a positive thing as we might think. I am the kind of person that like to please people and help others, that is the reason why must of the time I said “yes” to everything including things that are not good for me or things that I might not be able to accomplish because lack of time.

What make this personal characteristic worse is that sometimes I am pleasing people not God and there is when troubles come in the picture. When I try to please others and don’t have God in my mind things go wrong, because must of the times I am doing things that not go exactly with what God wants from me or wants for me, and that is sometimes hard to define. We sometimes try so hard to feel acceptable, recognized, be loved by others that we start doing things that are not quite right, compromise ourselves with things that we can’t handle or don’t have the time to accomplish, even when sometimes go against our values.

I have to remember all the time that God already accept, recognize and love me for who and how I am no matter how many favors I do or how many people I please. No matter how much bothers me not be able to help someone, I have to stop myself and think, would I be able to do this? Would I have the time? Would I be helping truly this person or I will be damaging that person? Who I am trying to please doing that action, to the person or to God?

Galatians 1:10

¹⁰ Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Big Hug,
MRM