English Are You Spending Your Heart in the Wrong Places?
What if people pleasing is keeping you from God’s best?
As women and moms, we often invest ourselves where we think we’ll find acceptance and affirmation. But sometimes we’re trying to put something valuable where it was never meant to fit.
The image of stuffing a $20 bill into a gumball machine says it all: forcing, striving, pushing—and ending up with loss.
People pleasing quietly convinces us that if everyone approves of us, we’ll finally feel secure. But approval was never meant to be our source.
Galatians 1:10 asks a piercing question: Am I seeking the approval of man or God?
2 Corinthians 10:5 teaches us to challenge the thoughts driving us.
Hebrews 12:1 reminds us to release unnecessary weights.
Inner Work Activating Question:
What “gumball machine” have I been feeding with valuable parts of myself?
