Who are you seeking approval from?

"For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ." -Galatians 1:10

This is something that God has really been impressing upon my heart over the last year or so. I tend to be a people-pleaser at times, and it's something I'm working on. When my desire to please people overpowers my desire to please God, it's a problem. Everything in this world is going to fade. Nothing is eternal...not family or relationships or wealth or popularity...nothing. It's all going to evaporate eventually. So why do I waste time and energy trying to please the ones who don't matter? We are on this earth to bring glory to God. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that our goal at any time is to please others. Obviously this doesn't mean we need to treat people like crap, but our feelings of sufficiency and worth and value should not come from them, but from our Creator. 2 Corinthians 3:5 says, "Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God." So even when "we" do the right thing it's not us at all. It's all God. We must decrease, He must increase. (John 3:30). We are not to find our affirmation in man, but in God. I have the habit of seeking the approval of man before God at times, and it's definitely not something that I'm proud of. I should never turn to others before I seek God's face. So I'm learning to let things go. I'm learning not to focus on the past or linger on things. Because in the light of eternity, a lot of things aren't going to matter. God's teaching me to find my worth, contentment, affirmation, and so much more in Him and Him alone