{"id":431,"date":"2022-09-22T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=431"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:43:37","slug":"relationship-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Relationship With God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Am I now trying to win the favor and approval of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please someone? If I were still trying to be popular with men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.&nbsp;&nbsp;-Galatians 1:10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it is good to do our best to have good relationships with people we should never put that over our relationship with God. The enemy loves to put us in situations where we might be tempted to go against our convictions in order to get the approval of another person. We should stand firm in God and never abandon our faith, even for a little bit, in order to please another person. I believe in most cases you can be a servant of God and still gain the respect of the people around you, but serving God should always be superior to gaining approval of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon\u2019t worry about other people\u2019s opinions of you. God never told you to impress people; only to love them.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;-Dave Willis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon\u2019t treat people the way they treat you. Treat people the way God treats you.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;-Dave Willis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dad Joke of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never play tennis with a cymbal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It makes a terrible racket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a good Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning! &nbsp; Am I now trying to win the favor and approval of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please someone? 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