Find Out What Is Pleasing to the Lord

To Please the Lord

(Ephesians 5:10)

“How can we please God?” Since the day we became Christians, we have been listening to the Word of Truth to seek the answer to this question. However, the knowledge of truth should be transformed into the ability to discern how our actions are viewed by God.

1. The Reason for Learning the Truth
God respects our willingness and does not force us to change. Instead, He gives us the knowledge of truth, expecting it to become the foundation for the holy actions that should be evident in our lives. However, such actions do not arise automatically from knowledge alone. We must accept the knowledge, use it as a standard to make decisions, and take action. As we continually test whether our deeds are pleasing to the Lord throughout our lives, we gradually develop the ability to judge our own state.

2. A Changed Life
If believers restrain their actions and show a changed life, it reveals that the Holy Spirit is actively at work within them. Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—each of these fruits of the Spirit is demonstrated as a moral outcome. However, if a believer continues to engage in evil deeds instead of bearing these fruits, it is because the work of the Holy Spirit has ceased in their life. This happens as a result of their persistent rejection and disregard of the truth that God has continually spoken to them through the church.

3. Continuing Through All Our Days
The world constantly creates confusion to keep believers from receiving the truth. This is why we need the light of God. Through the knowledge of truth, we must learn what pleases the Lord and use it to guide our actions. By continuing this process throughout our lives, we will gradually be changed into people who bear the fruit of the light. At the end of this change, we will find ourselves standing in the glory of heaven through God’s guidance, rejoicing together with the Lord.

Overseer Sung-Hyun Kim