What Does God Like?

Lately, I've been thinking about how I can please God.

Even looking at my life I started to notice that my Christianity sometimes becomes selfish. I pray so that my life becomes better; I serve because I like doing it; I'm trying to do God's will because I feel like this is my calling and my "place under the sun", etc.

And maybe it's not a bad thing but God is a person too - and He wants to have a relationship with me. And, I assume, he can feel good or bad, He can like and dislike something! (By the way, I didn't just come up with it - you can find verses in the Bible that say that God loves or hates something).

So I started praying and asking God about what His heart is like and what I can do to please Him. I realized that this question reminded me of a part of children's Christmas skit: "what can I give Jesus for His birthday?" Because God is self-sufficient and technically He doesn't need us at all because He literally has everything.

And when I was praying about it, I got an answer in my heart:

The Lord looks on the heart. God likes a heart that wants to please Him, a heart that loves Him!

Having this kind of heart we might not even notice how we do His will and please Him in some simple things. Because from the heart flow the springs of life and out of the abundance of the heart our mouth speak. God tests our hearts.

So now I'm praying a different prayer: I want to have a heart with a dream to please God, I want to never lose this focus. For what can be more important in this life than pleasing the One Who created me?

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." Ps 19:14