"Without faith it is impossible to please God." Hebrews 11:6 Spurgeon reminded us that we are not to fight our own battles but God’s battles. Thus, our focus is not on our own needs but God’s need, for the uplifting of His kingdom. We don’t take offense for ourselves but those offenses that are made against the righteousness of God. We should not be so easily provoked and overly concerned about those matters that Christ has already made the greatest sacrifice for. Our concern should be to ONLY TRUST HIM! It pleases God when we trust Him and exercise our faith. The chief end of man, we believe, in this life and in the next, is to please God his Maker. If any man pleases God, he does that which conduces most to his own temporal and eternal welfare. Man cannot please God without bringing to himself a great amount of happiness; for if any man pleases God, it is because God accepts him as his son, gives him the blessings of adoption, pours upon him the bounties of his grace, makes him a blessed man in this life, and insures him a crown of everlasting life, which he shall wear, and which shall shine with unfading lustre when the wreaths of earth's glory have all been melted away; while, on the other hand, if a man does not please God, he inevitably brings upon himself sorrow and suffering in this life; he puts a worm and a rottenness in the core of all his…He that pleases God, is, through Divine grace, journeying onward to the ultimate reward of all those that love and fear God; but he who is ill-pleasing to God, must, for Scripture has declared it, be banished from the presence of God, and consequently from the enjoyment of happiness. If then, we be right in saying that to please God is to be happy, Charles Spurgeon
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