It takes God to please God. This can be found in 1 Timothy 2:5; For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
How to please God, even when you do not attend a religious assembly, be it a mosque or a church or a synagogue, and do not belong to any religious denomination. A person cannot please God by him- or her- self.
The Scriptures tells us about how to please God. the reality is that the process of pleasing God requires God’s help. By ourselves, we cannot please Him. Take the case of a medical doctor who goes to work, and promised his wife to be home by six o’clock in the evening, the trip from his workplace to his house is thirty minutes. As he was about to leave work at 5:30 pm, there was an influx of Ambulances bringing accident victims requiring major surgery. What does he do? Keep his word to his wife or stay to attend to the accident victims. Obviously, this is a no-brainer example. The Bible tells us in 1 Chronicles 29:17; I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. How do you maintain integrity? It takes God to help us to maintain integrity. It takes God to please God.
Dieting by fasting is not really God’s first choice of communication. Fasting and praying is approved by God, for communicating between Himself and His children. But He categorically stated the kind of fasting that pleases Him in Isaiah 58:6-7; “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Clearly, in order to share your food, you must first have food, which is of course provided by God. To provide shelter for the poor wanderer, you must first have shelter yourself, which is once again provided by God. To clothe those who are naked, you must first have clothes yourself. Unless, you believe that you created yourself, conceive yourself, gave birth to yourself and that everything you have is by your own effort. There is of course freedom of expression of opinion.
Having the opinion of self-existence, or generally the philosophy of SELF, has one flaw, that is mortality. Even if you believe that you created yourself or that you evolved from apes and that the origin of the universe is the Big Bang theory, some 13 and half billion years ago, you are not going to live past one hundred and fifty years at the most. We will all die, just like a flea with a couple of weeks’ lifespan dies. It might be a good idea to live life in a manner that pleases our Maker and not ourselves. Whether the universe is 13 and a half billion years old or not, apparently somebody is responsible for it, and that Person is still controlling things, thousands of years since it was created or if you subscribe to the Big Bang theory, billions of years since it was created. The fact that, we have not been able to find signs of intelligent life elsewhere in our star (our Sun and the 8 or 9 planets that orbit it with accompanying moons.) says something about Intelligent Design. It is probably a good idea not to piss off the Designer, rather pleasing Him seems the better option. Peace out.
