Do people approve of me? Will they like this post?
Galatians 1:10-11 says, “For now I am seeking the approval of man or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Isn’t this the deep cry of our hearts? From the beginning of time, even in the garden with Adam and Eve, people have longed for human approval. This problem is only amplified through social media and smart phones and in some ways, it hinders our relationship with the Lord.
Tony Reineke says that we have been conditioned to post and watch for those immediate “likes” of human approval…and this craving for human approval absolutely kills faith. Read John
12:42-43. God is saying that you want glory from your peers.
You can’t see how glorious I am because you are seeking human approval.
Whether we struggle with constantly staring at and refreshing our social media platforms waiting for those “likes” to roll in, or we took with human approval in a different way, it is an incredibly slippery slope.
The Lord can not be truly magnified in our lives if we are basing our worth off the thoughts and cares of man instead.
Friend, what the Lord says about us in Scripture is SO much more life giving and satistying than any Instagram post with 1k likes or human accolades.
If you have found life in Christ, through his death and resurrection, you have truly been set free. God looks at our lives and instead of our guilt, sin, and shame, sees the pertect and complete sacrifice of Jesus in our place.
So why should we care more about what other people think about us when the Creator of the universe looks at us and calls us his own?
Today, put your phone away. Instead of refreshing that screen one more time, let us refresh our souls with Words that are sweeter than life. Praise our glorious God that the approval of man is not what sets us free, but rather the precious blood of our perfect and spotless Savior.
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