Are you concerned about how people see you? Do you need the approval of people in your life? Why? Our Christian lives can be lived in a phony state because we are men pleasers rather than God pleasers. Our fear of being exposed, humiliated, rejected or threatened creates a huge fear of man in our life and reveals that man, is actually bigger in our minds, than God Himself.
That is a serious state to be in. It creates its own kind of bondage and renders us useless and defeated for the Lord’s work. Our labor for the Lord is not to be about us anyway. So if we are concerned about how we will be seen or perceived, we are exposing the fact that we are serving with the wrong motive. We are a hypocrite.
Proverbs 29:25 “The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.”
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