Editorial June 30, 1928 Issue

Pleasing God

Ella W. Hoag

It has generally been supposed that the main object of all Christians is to live so that they may please God. Because He has been accepted as the dispenser of good, and this in accordance with His own great pleasure, even selfishness has argued to men the wisdom of pleasing Him.

"For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." Thus centuries ago did Samuel record God's voice to him. Paul, evidently having imbibed the spirit of this instruction, prayed for "the saints and faithful brethren in Christ" that they "might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God."

The quotations given above set forth certain distinctive points which men must understand if they are intelligently to do that which is pleasing to the Most High. God's word to Samuel indicates that the heart must be searched, that it may be cleansed of all that is un-Christly before there can be any assurance that its innermost recesses contain only that which would satisfy Deity; while the conclusion Paul draws shows us that a knowledge of God is inevitably necessary if we are to know how to satisfy Him.

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