Assumption gets me into trouble
Ephesians 5:10 - “Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.”
Assumption gets me into trouble all the time! It is more convenient to assume that something is going to be fine than to double-check and cover all the bases. When I read this verse, I felt convicted to make sure that I hadn’t made any incorrect assumptions as to what pleases God.
Throughout the course of life, it’s easy to live based on our experience or to justify our actions or motives based on what we’ve seen in other people … But are we making wrong assumptions? The Bible here is encouraging us to CAREFULLY determine what pleases the Lord. We need to make sure we don’t fall into the trap of assumption just because everyone else is doing it or because a certain attitude or action has become accepted within culture (even sometimes Christian culture!).
Have you made any wrong assumptions about God and what is pleasing to Him? I encourage you to read through the whole of Ephesians 5 and allow it to shed some light on what really pleases God.
Doc
August 12th, 2009 at 11:15 am
thanks for posting this
October 10th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I totally agree with this and i just wanna encourage everyone to live solely for this purpose-that is to live only to please the FATHER!!