The approval you've been chasing is already yours
There’s a question I asked at the start of today’s devotional, and I’d like to ask it again here.
Think about yesterday. How many of your decisions - big or small - were quietly shaped by what someone else might think of you?
Maybe you said yes when you wanted to say no. Maybe you held back a thought to avoid a fuss. Maybe you smiled through a conversation that cost you something.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Most of us spend our whole lives trying to earn someone’s approval - a parent, a manager, a friendship group. We’re so used to it that it stops feeling like people-pleasing and just starts feeling like... being polite.
But Paul says something in Galatians 1:10 that is blunt, a little startling, and - once you really hear it - genuinely liberating.
He says: “Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.”
No easing in gently. No softening the edges. Just that.
In today’s devotional, I work through three honest thoughts about people-pleasing - why it’s really fear in disguise, why it’s so exhausting, and why the approval you’ve been looking for is already yours in Christ.
That last one is the really good bit.
If you’ve got five minutes today, I’d love you to watch it. And if you’d rather just sit with the question for a moment - that’s fine too. Either way, I hope something shifts.
With you in it, Rob
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