For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts. (1 Thessalonians 2:4 NLT)
There are several things in this verse worthy of consideration, but focus carefully on the purpose statement in the middle of the verse. We live to please One and any confusion on that point makes you a "person with divided loyalty" and " as unsettled as a wave of the sea..." (James 1:6)
