Lesson 3. To Be Pleasing to God

Imagine the following scenario: a five-year-old child comes to his father
with a poorly wrapped gift on Father’s Day. Excitedly, he hands the gift
to his father.
Imagine that the father says, “Son, I do not care about your gift. After
all, there is nothing you could give me that would please me. Anything
you could give me, I could get for myself, and anything you give to
me was either bought with my money or made from materials that I
paid for. So, keep your gift. I do not need it or want it. But I love you,
anyway.”
Memory Text: “The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty
One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet
you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah
3:17, NKJV).
What do you think of this father’s reaction? Such words as heartless,
cold, and unfeeling come to mind. Is this the way God responds to us?
Can we actually be pleasing to God? Hard as it is to imagine, even we
as fallen beings, corrupted by sin, and prone to evil—yes, we can be
pleasing to God! In other words, God does not look upon us, or the gifts
that we bring Him, with the attitude of that father. On the contrary, we
can be pleasing to God, but only through Christ.👉🏻Bible study lesson -
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