Pleasing God - Pt. 1 — Kay Smith

The Brevity of Human Life

God has laid on my heart, these last few months, a principle of Christian living which has just revitalized and revolutionized and blessed me and simplified my life, and I want to share it with you this morning.

Because of the urgency of the days in which we live, the Lord has told me it's not just for me, but to get it out to as many women as fast as I can, so that's kind of the way I'm moving right now. In Psalm 39 .4, and please turn to it, I call this my birthday scripture.

I read this every birthday, but I'm not going to read you the verse that I read for my birthday because that's not the point, but it's verse 5 is my birthday scripture, and kind of save it for your birthday.

When you get older, you'll really appreciate it. Okay, but Psalm 39 .4, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Now, in the marginal reference of my Bible where it says how frail I am, it says what time I have.

In other words, Lord, make me to know what time I have. I wish that God would just by a miracle say to me, hey, you have 10 days, you have 10 years, you have 5 minutes. Don't you wish you would? I just wish you'd tell us exactly what time we have.

David prayed that. He said, Lord, let me know what time I have, and God is really, in a sense, letting us know what time we have, and we don't have very much. In the living Bible, it says, Lord, help me to realize how brief my time on earth will be.

Lord, help me to realize how brief my time on earth will be. If you suddenly had to evacuate your home because of a disaster, and we've seen a lot of them this year so far, fire, flood, a mudslide, what would you take with you?

If a boat came out in front of your house that was flooding, and a dam had burst, or your house was on fire and you had to get out, what would you want to grab to take with you? Most of us think about it, and there are so many things.

What is most important to me? This year, we've seen so many disasters. I saw one the other night, I can't remember if it was Louisiana, and the homes were just being flooded. It was horrible, and I saw this one man on TV, all he had time to do was leave his house and jump in the raft.

He didn't have time to grab anything. And then a warning came over the radio to the people, do not go back to your homes until the waters have completely receded, because there are snakes and fire ants in the house, and you couldn't see them.

Can you imagine? God is sending signs and warnings to us all the time. In 2 Peter, the third chapter, don't turn to it right now, but would you write it down in your notes to read when you get home? 2 Peter 3 describes the last days of this world, and as we know it, read it.

It says, seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, verse 11, seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, God is showing you over and over and over again that all the things that we're hanging on to are going to be burnt with a fervent heat, and nothing's going to last except your eternal soul, that's all, and the work that you've done for him that are not wood, hay, and stubble, but are pure gold, they'll stand the test of the fire, they are going to last, and nothing else.

God is warning us. We flew over Mount Helens on our way home, Mount Helens, Washington, where the volcano is erupting right now. What a strange thing to have happen here. The rains we've had have been so heavy, the floods.

I haven't seen floods like we had this past winter since I was a tiny little girl, and God is showing us, these things are out of our control, and he wants you to be aware that we are in last time. I saw Gordon Cooper on a talk show on TV a couple of weeks ago, and the talk host asked him, Gordon Cooper was an astronaut, and the talk show host asked him, Gordon, what can you tell us about what's happening right now that won't scare us?

Gordon Cooper is kind of a relaxed, pragmatic person, at least on TV. He kind of leaned back in his chair and he said, well, the Russians have developed some pretty powerful weapons, he said, they're called energy transfer.

Now, I am saying it in my words. I'm paraphrasing a little bit because I didn't get a tape on it, but these are the three things he brought up. He said, first of all, I'll be putting this very simply, but as soon as it's perfected, and it should be sometime the beginning of next year, it will be a simple thing for Russia to paralyze any city in the United States.

He said, for instance, they could paralyze the city of Los Angeles. Okay. The second thing, they can transfer germ warfare through this energy transfer any place in the world, and we know that that's true because of the anthrax thing that went awry in that city where their germ warfare factory is, and it exposed what they're doing.

And the third thing, and this was scariest of all, he said, they can already do this. They can control the climate anywhere in the world by energy transfer. And I was thinking, ooh, when we were in Israel, they said they'd had more rain than they've had in, is it 16 years or even longer, more than they've ever had recorded almost, and they had that snow storm, which was almost a blizzard while we were there, and I thought this is really strange weather.

Mount Helens exploding or erupting is rather a strange thing. You wonder what they're up to right now, and satellites are beginning to be missing. Like if you've been listening to Channel 40, their Angel 1 and 2 are missing, and it would be a very simple thing for the Russians to knock out satellites now.

And you just think of these things. We know also another sign to all of us is the economic instability of our own country, the energy crisis. We don't know how much longer we're going to have oil, and the price of gasoline is going up, up, up.

We're in inflation. Have you bought a pair of shoes lately? I can't believe it. Mamas that have to buy school shoes for three or four children. I don't know. We couldn't do it very well when they were, you know, 14 years ago.

Russia's invasion of Afghanistan is a very serious thing. Our inability to get our hostages back out of Iran. When we were in Israel this time, they're on a 24-hour alert in the northern part of Israel.

If you read last week about the PLO terrorists coming down into that Moshe, it was right next to Kfar Giladi where we stayed, right up in that very northern part of Israel. It's very, very dangerous. Syria is about ready to attack Israel any moment.

It could happen. And God is showing his body these things. And you'd have to absolutely have your head in the sand to not know that our world as we've known it is almost at the end. Henry Kissinger spoke at a luncheon, and I think a lot of you heard her at dinner.

Chuck Missler was there, and I don't have the quotation exactly, so I'm not going to try to quote it, but it was very, very serious. And Chuck Missler said, all the people left just stunned by what he said.

We are almost at the end of this world as we've known it. And Christians, you must wake up. God has never destroyed society without giving warning after warning after warning. Noah preached righteousness for 100 years before the flood came.

Now, people then lived to be 300, 400, 500 years old, even older. So 100 years wasn't as long a time. I mean, yeah, it would be comparable to what we are in now. But God always warns, and he told Noah to build an ark.

And every day, the people that lived in Noah's community must have seen him building that ark. There was a living testimony of Noah, that man out there every day working on arks, saying, the floods are going to come, the floods are going to come.

God is saying that to our hearts today. Destruction is coming. And you can be as Noah and be prepared, or you can be as the five foolish virgins and be unprepared for the coming of Jesus Christ. I'm not telling you these things this morning to frighten you at all, but to make you aware and to show you the principle that God has given me for living in these last days.

Asking What God Wants Us to Do

The thought uppermost in the committed Christian's life in this time is, I think, this is what most of us are thinking. What does God want me to do? OK, if I have a few hours, if I have a few weeks, if I have a few months, if I have 20 years, what does God want me to do?

Second Peter 311b, don't turn, just listen, is the question, what manner of persons ought you to be? What should we be like? What should we be doing? Francis Schaeffer's book and pictures that he put out a few years ago were titled, How Should We Then Live?

Seeing that all these things are going to be dissolved and all these things are coming upon us, how should we then live? If Jesus came for his church right now, what would you want to be doing? What would I want to be doing?

Would I want to be praying? Would I want to be witnessing? How about if I'm bathing babies or if I'm cooking dinner or I'm sitting in an office, what should the attitude of my heart be? Evy Turnquist Carlson said this, I want to live as though somebody were following me 24 hours a day, seven days a week and could know what a Christian is.

Don't you love that? I love that. How hearing and seeing and knowing this has affected me is what I want to talk to you about next. First of all, I think this just extreme awareness began with the filming of Future Survival when we were in Brussels and in Israel and when Chuck began to put all these things together, the last prophecies and how one prophecy after another after another had been fulfilled and there's nothing left except for the Lord to come back and get his church, really.

Seeing that really stirred my innermost being. I started reading 2 Peter the third chapter over and over and over again and I came up with where to be diligent and pure and holy and I thought, yes, Lord, I know that's the way you want us to be.

Then Ramona Jensen came down, not the last time she came down, she told this story then, but the time before when she came down, she told this story and this is the thing that began to really put everything together in my life.

She told, and I've shared it with you in the Titus 2 study, but I'm going to do it quickly again. She told about going to Darmstadt, Germany, remember to the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary and how this woman came to the gate to meet her and the lady was in her 60s, Ramona is 28, and she said that the lady asked to carry her luggage and Ramona said, oh, no, let me do it.

And the woman said, oh, it would please me to do it. And the lady picked up Ramona's suitcase and carried it up to the registration hall. On the way up there, she asked Ramona what her favorite color was, what her favorite flower was, what her favorite drink was and what her favorite scripture was.

Then after registering, they walked over to the room where Ramona was supposed to stay. In the room hanging were her favorite colored towels, her favorite flowers were in a vase on a table, her favorite drink was tea, a hot steaming pot of tea waiting for her there, and on the wall in a frame was written out in hand her favorite scripture.

When she went to dinner that night, she said she had no trouble finding her place at the table because around her plate was a ring of flowers, her favorite flower, and chocolates at that plate. When she sat down to eat, the people stood up and began to sing songs like the Lord bless you, Ramona, the Lord keeps you, the Lord causes faith to shine upon you.

Well, she was just so blessed by the whole thing. Before she got on the plane to leave, they gave her a little booklet. As she was reading on the plane, this little booklet, she knew why they did it. And the reason was not because she was Ramona Jensen, but they would do that for any speaker that came, in fact, probably anybody that they had as a guest.

Pleasing the Heart of God

They did it to please the heart of God. And that is the secret that God is programming into my heart as to how we are to live in these last days as women of God, to please the heart of God. It's the most important way you can live in these last days.

Please means to bring pleasure to, to satisfy, and to gratify. Pleasing the heart of God became the chief area of meditation. I began to weigh my actions in the light of pleasing him. It wasn't anymore doing things just out of obedience, but with a desire to please God.

And there's a big difference. You know, if you have children, what it's like when they do something to obey you, like take the trash out, just gripe all the way. Or one morning you go downstairs and the trash can has been emptied and they did it just to please you.

That's a difference. You know the difference. You can sense the difference. This moves us way beyond obedience. Amy Carmichael tells about being in the orphanage that she started in India. And one evening there were five little children that needed diapering and bottling and put in their bed and cuddling and loving a little bit.

And the lady that was taking care of them heard the chapel bells ring. It was time to go to chapel. And she picked up her Bible and her prayer book. And she said, I must go to chapel now. Raced off to the chapel.

And here were these five little babies needing all this care. And Amy Carmichael was the one that fed them and diapered them and bedded them down. And you see, she knew the difference between being obedient and pleasing the heart of God.

Pleasing the heart of God was doing the thing that was most necessary at the moment to show forth his love to take care of these little ones. I began to think, what if I live that way all the time? And I ran everything through the filter of, does this please God's heart?

It's not a new revelation. I believe it probably began at conversion. And I live that way off and on, all through my Christian life, as most of us have. You know, one day we really want to please him.

And then another time we gripe over having to be obedient. But I often, and I think a lot of us, are phased Christians. That's my own definition. We go through phases. Either phases of obedience and disobedience.

Or we go through phases of discovering a truth about God. And then everything hinges on that truth. And, for instance, when we first started out in the ministry, everything was faith. We had to live by faith.

We didn't have any money, and God would send the groceries in. And I thought the greatest thing that you could have in your Christian walk was faith. Oh, if you have faith. And I tested everybody I met to see if they have faith.

Faith, faith. You know, do you have faith to believe for a nickel? And didn't matter about love or anything else. Did they have faith? And then I went through the love phase. And did they have love? Did they have love?

And kind of, you know, that was the only thing that really mattered to me. Did they really have love in their heart? Did they really love God? And then I went through the obedience phase. And it reminded me of caring for a plant.

And you take your little plant home and you say, I know what this plant needs more than anything else in the world. It needs water. Well, more plants have been killed by overwatering than anything else, I think.

Well, then that didn't work. So then I go to the next phase. Oh, this plant needs light. So I would set it in the sunniest place in the house. And it didn't matter if it was a begonia or a tulip or whatever it was.

And I'd set it in that place. You know, a plant that gets too much light, gets yellow on its leaves, it can kill a plant. Now, that's not a spiritual analogy. Too much light will never kill you. But remember, I'm talking about a plant now.

And all analogies break down someplace. And that's where that one just broke down. But we're going to recover it right here. Or I would think, oh, it's the soil. It needs this kind of soil. See, I went through phases in caring for my plant.

And one day I was looking at the plant and I thought, hey, Kay, it needs all those things. It needs air. It needs water. It needs light. It needs good soil. But what is the purpose of that plant? The purpose of that plant was to bring pleasure to me in my home.

It was to beautify my home. That's why I bought it. Did you ever buy a plant because you didn't want it to bring pleasure to you? You just buy a grubby old weed and put it someplace. I mean, just said, you know, you don't do that.

You bought that plant and brought it into your home to beautify your home and to bring pleasure to you and to your family, to your friends that come in. Whoever sees it, it should bring pleasure to you.

Or you don't care about keeping it around. OK, as I meditated on this and it became so real to me, God began to confirm it to my heart, because whatever I share with you and whatever my mind is programmed with, I want to be sure it's God's will for me.

And the first thing that happened that really hit me that I knew was the confirmation was I was walking around the house one day singing Thou Art Worthy. Just singing it. Just, you know, how you do. You're just praising the Lord.

All of a sudden, the words for thou has created, hath all things created, and for thy what? Pleasure. They are created. All of a sudden, my mind, for your pleasure, everything was created. All things were created for your pleasure, God.

That means I was created for your pleasure. You, every single woman in this room was created for God's pleasure. Now, why he chose to do that, I do not know. We may never know. But the Word of God says that's why we were created.

Revelation 411. I ran and got my Bible and I opened it and I read it in every translation and paraphrase and amplification I could because it blessed my heart so much because it was confirming what God said to me.

This is the way I should have been living all my Christian life. Just for God's pleasure. Okay. We're created for his pleasure. Now, Adam and Eve originally were created for God's pleasure, but they chose to please themselves instead of God and their relationship was destroyed.

Sin and sorrow were the consequences. Your relationship with God will be destroyed and your fellowship destroyed through the same choice. The choice to please yourself instead of bringing pleasure to God.

Jesus as the Pattern of Pleasing God

The next scripture God confirmed to my heart was John 8, 29. And I just picked it out of a promise box one day or out of, I can't remember, a magazine or something. I opened it and it jumped off of whatever I was reading and it was Jesus who is our example.

The scripture, I do always those things which please him. Jesus, who is the one we are to be following in all our example of our life, said, I do always those things which please him. John 8, 29. The third confirmation came through a little antique devotional that I keep by my bed.

It's 100 years old and it is the dearest devotional. Now, if I were looking for something to confirm God's word for the last days, I certainly wouldn't turn to a 100-year-old devotional. You know, I would want something right now and just, you know, confirm it today, Lord, this way.

I opened it up and I was thinking, what shall I share? Some place I had to speak recently. What shall I share? Shall I share this, Lord? And the scripture was Colossians 3, 23. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto men.

Whatever you do, do it to please the Lord. Do it with joy unto the Lord, not to please men. And there was this little poem with it. Teach me, my God and King, in all things thee to see, and what I do in anything, to do it as for thee.

Praying one day about it, I go, oh, what is this? I just feel such a confirmation in my heart. This is where you want me to live. This is what you want me to share, to live pleasing unto you. Oh, God, just speak to my heart more about this.

And through my mind went the name Enoch. I mean, it was just like that, Enoch. And it was strong. I stopped praying. I got my Bible. I looked up Hebrews 11, 5. I knew Enoch was lifted with the men of faith there.

And I want you to turn to Hebrews 11, 5. And let's just leave our Bibles open to that place the rest of the time. I'll read it. By faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him.

For before his translation, he had this testimony that, what? That he, what? Please, God. God put that in my mind in prayer. Third confirmation. Oh, Enoch. Now, you know what I was taught about Enoch when I was a little girl?

That Enoch was the type of the church. Noah was the type of the Jewish people that would be sealed during the tribulation. But Enoch was the type of the church that was taken up in the rapture, in the translation.

And it says he was translated that he should not see death. In other words, he didn't live through the flood. God could have caused Enoch to live through the flood. Men lived, his two generations down, Methuselah lived 969 years.

Enoch could easily have lived and been destroyed in God's punishment upon the world, then the flood. But in Genesis 5, it says he walked with God and was not because God took him. Because he walked with God.

In the New Testament, it said Enoch had this testimony that he, please, God. And that should be the testimony of the bride of Christ today. It should be your testimony that you, please, God. I tried to think of a feminine for Enoch so we could call ourselves something like the Enochette or something.

But it doesn't sound right. It just doesn't lend itself. It's not a particularly pretty name. But would you think of Enoch? Write it down. You might even write Enoch and put the just the word around your house someplace to remind you of the man that lived to please God.

And he is like the bride of Christ. And he was translated. He was taken out before the great flood came that destroyed the world. OK, another reason that I feel that this message is so important to the body today, especially to women, is it because it simplifies the Christian life.

Pleasing God Simplifies Christian Living

It just simplifies it right now. Think if I had to evacuate my home in one minute. Now, all the animals and fish and birds would be taken out. Anything alive would be taken out, removed. But what would I take?

And I want you to take one minute and think about it. Decide what you would take. OK, was it a hard decision? Most people, it is hard. I've tried and tried and tried to think what I'd take. You wonder if you want to take your most treasured possessions or you wonder if you want to take the most practical things.

You know, I love my pillow. Would I, you know, or will I need a blanket? Would I rather have clothing for the next day? Or, you know, would I rather take this? And the one thing I have come up with over and over again are photographs of my babies because they can't be replaced.

And I can see some man rowing a boat up to the door and I'm coming out with photographs of my baby. Lady, you're crazy. But it's hard to decide when you know you're never going to be able to come back to those things.

If you saw the hills that slid down in the mudslides and you see homes are destroyed by fire, everything utterly ruined, everything that was precious to you can't find anything, especially if your home is destroyed by fire.

What one thing would you want to save? Well, I find the same thing is true in the Christian life. If you start thinking, Lord, what should I be doing? Let's see, I ought to be doing this. No, I ought to be doing that.

Well, I ought to be praying. Well, if you came back right now, I ought to be. I want to be. I should be. And it gets complicated and it gets difficult. But if you think, Lord, I just want to please you.

If I'm fixing dinner, I want to please you. If I'm cleaning house, I want to please you. If I'm in the market, I want to please you. If I'm driving my car, I want to please you. That's a hard place for some people who are always in a hurry.

But can other drivers tell by the way I drive that I love Jesus or that I'm a Christian? I want to please you so that when you come back, wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I will have the testimony that Enoch had.

I will be pleasing unto you. Okay, some ways that it simplifies your life. One is that the right or wrong hassle is over. Is this right or is it wrong? And I was thinking of disco dancing. Now, I don't disco dance and I don't intend to ever disco dance, but there are a lot of Christians that do.

And I was thinking, people have come to me and said, Kay, do you think it's a sin to disco dance? Is it all right to disco dance? It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. It matters whether it pleases the heart of God.

Right? Does it please Him? Is that where He wants you to be? It's up to you. It's an individual thing. You have to decide for yourself. It's between God and you. It's not Pastor Chuck saying you mustn't or you shouldn't.

It's not Kay saying that's wrong. It's not your friends deciding for you. It's a thing between God and you. Lord, would this please you? Will I bring joy to you if I'm doing this? It simplifies the right and wrong in life.

It provides the right motivation for whatever I do. We're not looking for or expecting praise, recognition, approval, appreciation from people. Our joy will come from bringing joy to God. Sunday morning, I was thinking about this again before I came out to church, and I was reading the 43rd Psalm.

And the 5th verse is kind of lifted off the page. God's the gladness of my joy or my exceeding joy. God is my exceeding joy. He's the gladness of my heart. And if He's that and I want to bring pleasure to Him, I'm not going to be living in this low self-esteem place where if somebody doesn't give me approval, I'm devastated.

And if my husband doesn't appreciate me, I'm just going to be so hurt or crushed or angry or whatever a wife gets. We all know what ways we get when we're not appreciated or approved of. And that's not going to matter because whatever I do, I'm going to do it unto the Lord.

And He's the one whose approval I'm going to be concerned with. In marriage, this is such a precious thing. I shared this when I was in the Titus 2 study, this principle of pleasing God. And I've had some feedback on it, which has been really precious.

How it has revitalized and revolutionized some lives. But we have this thing of the husband neglecting and the wife punishing. And we have it over and over and over again in marriages. Or the wife neglects and he punishes.

And we see this vicious circle just going round and round and round. But if whatever you do in your marriage, you do to please God's heart because it brings joy to God's heart, that you're showing love to your husband, that you're cooking a dinner that will please him, that you clean the house, you pick up after him because you know it pleases the heart of God that you're willing to be a servant.

You have that humble spirit because that pleases the heart of God. It brings joy into your marriage. Now, I don't want you to go out of here and do something beautiful tonight for dinner and your husband ignores it completely and you turn to him and say, well, it really doesn't matter because I didn't do it to please you.

I did it to please God, so there. You cad. And a cad is an ungentlemanly man. Don't do that. You don't say to him, I did this to please the heart of God, so it doesn't matter. You just have that beautiful fountain of rejoicing in your heart that, Lord, I did it to please you.

And then you know it's time to pray. And Lord, would you make him aware that I also did it to please him because I knew it would please you if I pleased him. And God is a God of miracles. He can do it.

Pleasing God Through Hospitality and Love

In friendship, we have what I call the Emily Post syndrome. And you know what that is? You invite me to dinner so that I'll invite you back to dinner. Now, woe be unto our friendship and unto me if you invite me to dinner and I don't invite you back because Emily says, drop those friends.

And I've even read that in Ann Landers. Have you ever read that? I mean, we all know that's the social custom. If you want to make new friends, you invite them over for dinner and then they invite you back.

If they don't invite you back, it's a sign they don't want to be your friend. Phooey! Don't you believe it? Jesus gave us a whole different principle. And in Luke 14, 12 to 14, don't turn to it, but you might write it down.

And it's so delightful in Living Bible in Luke 12 to 14. This is what he says to do. And I just love it. Jesus said, when you put on a dinner, don't invite friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors, for they will return the invitation.

Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. Then at the resurrection of the godly, God will reward you for inviting those who can't repay you. Now, that's the principle that comes with pleasing the heart of God.

How long has it been since you invited a poor person, a crippled person, a lame person, or a blind person to your house for dinner? How long since you reached out to somebody that nobody else cares about?

I think that is one of the biggest lacks in the church today, is reaching out to that person that nobody cares about. And they're around Calvary. I see people, and they just stand all by themselves, and they're lonely, and they're hurting.

And maybe, you know, there are unlovely people in the world. There are. And most of us love to be around the lovely people. But what did Jesus say? He said, invite these people into your home. Chuck's dad was always inviting strange people into his home.

And he really took this scripture literally. And Chuck had more interesting experiences in his life by some of the people that just got out of jail, or dad would meet on the street and invite home. They had some of the craziest things happen that just left the kids with their eyes like this, you know.

And it was beautiful. And it was a beautiful principle that dad taught Chuck as a little boy. There was a girl here at Calvary that's gone now, but very sad, very lonely girl. And nobody would befriend her.

Nobody. And we just kind of took it on our hearts to invite her to our home, to make her a part of our life. And God blessed us over and over and over again through it and for it. Look around. Don't invite the people that are always being invited.

You remember in high school the popular kids and they all, you know. And remember how rotten it was if you were unpopular. And it was terrible. High school can be so traumatic for kids if they're not popular.

Well, churches can have the same thing. You look around and do what Jesus said. Now, is Jesus saying you can never have your friends and relatives over for dinner again? Of course not. Of course not. Jesus always used wisdom in everything that he said and everything that he did.

He had God's wisdom flowing through him because he was very God. What he was showing was an attitude of the heart. The purpose for inviting people over. Is the purpose inviting people over to receive an invitation back?

Or is it just because you love the people and you want to be with them and they never invite you back again? You love them just as much. That pleases the heart of God. It does. And it's the way he wants you to live.

This walk is a deeper, closer walk. It's living to please him. It gives grace to ignore or to bear injustice, unkindness. You want to forgive. You want to forsake. You don't want hatred and bitterness in your life.

You get rid of jealousy. Sometimes it's difficult and sometimes it's easy. Your depth of love for God makes the difference. The Matthew 22, 37 principle to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind.

We have somebody around our house right now that's very much in love. Oh, she has found the beloved. And it's marvelous to be around her. And you know, nobody has to tell her how to please him. Nobody.

She's constantly thinking of food he likes to eat and the color he'd like her to wear and how to do her hair. And every time she does her hair, she comes in and says, do you think Brian will like this?

And you know, I hear Brian, Brian, Brian. Nobody has to tell a heart of love to please its beloved. Love's heart desires to please. And when you have that love for God that you ought to have, you are going to desire to please him above everyone else.