Pleasing God First

"For do I now persuade men, or God?
or do I seek to please men?
for if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of Christ."

I am going to be completely honest. I hate having other people be upset with me or disagree with me. I am not talking about some one having a different opinion than me. I mean when I am working with some one on a project or in a group, and I can't please everyone in what I am doing.
The feeling of being torn between two people's differing ideas, views, or preferences on a task is a feeling that makes me completely stressed, especially if I am the leader of the group, project, etc.
I have recently been placed in a situation just like the above. I am the one actually doing the project, but it involves other people, and I am also under some one else, so I have been trying to "please" a lot of people.
Up until Wednesday night, I had been stressed trying to get all of the different versions of the task to fit into one project that pleased everyone. I origanally started the project to please the Lord and because I truly believed it was His will that I do it. Somewhere along the way, though, I got off track and started trying to please everone else all at once.
Lastnight I literally was physically ill from the stress of it all. That's when I realized how off track I had gotten. As I was trying to figure out how to get back into the project without the stress, I was reminded of today's text, Galations 1:10.
This verse completely explained why I had become so stressed. I was trying to please some one other than God. I can not please everyone at once. It is simply not humanly possible to please everyone at once. Through the Lord, though, I can have the Holy Spirit's aid and wisdom in finding solutions to problems, being a peacemaker, finding compromises, etc.
Also, if I am following the Lord, then even when a problem may not be able to be completely resolved, I can know that I did my best, and that I did what pleased the Lord, and I will have peace about the rest.
Before we begin anything for the Lord, we need to check and make sure we are actually pleasing Him first. It is also very helpful to periodically check our motives in all that we do and make sure that we are still pleasing God rather than man.
When we please God first, we will have His peace and wisdom about everything else. It may not always be easy, but we will always have the Lord to help us if we follow Him before anything, everything, and everyone else!
Will you decide with me to begin living to please the Lord instead of self, others, etc? I firmly believe that this commitment will lead to a spirit filled life full of amazing things.

~A Daughter of the King~
~Desiring to please her Father first~