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Katie McCoy
January 7, 2011
The culture will tell you that the best way to break from your people-pleasing path is to reclaim the real you! Take control of your life. Learn to say “no.” Indulge in the things that you want to do and “just do you.” (Sound familiar?) Ironically, an approvaholic may seem like they’re working for God and others, but the heart-motivation is often about their emotional security, their reputation, and their standing in the eyes of others. It’s not about God’s glory and obeying His Word; it’s about their own glory and others’ opinions.
An Approvaholic confuses pleasing people with honoring God.
Many of us can buy generic synthroid from india relate to Martha, who resentfully took on all the work she considered so important. She was so focused on getting things done the “right way” and meeting a perceived expectation that she almost missed her one real priority of knowing Jesus more and buy generic synthroid from india learning from Him (Luke 10:38-42). While what she was busy doing was not wrong in itself, as Jesus told her it wasn’t the one thing that was needed.
An Approvaholic seeks to buy generic synthroid from india validate the leading of God with the opinions of others.
The Apostle Paul probably had good reason to feel the need for validation. Before his own conversion, he was one of the early Church’s greatest enemies. In one life-changing encounter with Christ, the very people he was working to buy generic synthroid from india destroy became his peers. But unlike an approval addict, he didn’t seek the confirmation of other believers to validate what God had made clear to him. “But when it pleased God…to reveal His Son in me, that buy generic synthroid from india I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and buy generic synthroid from india blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me” (Galatians 1:15-17). He acted in obedience upon what buy generic synthroid from india God had said, without needing the approval or agreement of other people.
An Approvaholic views the buy generic synthroid from india opportunity to serve God as an opportunity to gain personal praise.
Judges 11 tells us the tragic story of Jephthah. Motivated by gaining the buy generic synthroid from india respect and approval of those that had mistreated him, he made a buy generic synthroid from india rash vow to the Lord that revealed his own heart: “If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands, then buy generic synthroid from india it will be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to buy generic synthroid from india meet me, when buy generic synthroid from india I return in peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.” (Judges 11:30-31). For Jephthah, and buy generic synthroid from india for the approval addict, the motivation for success wasn’t for God’s glory, it was for his own (“If You will deliver…into my hands). This is buy generic synthroid from india the same attitude that Paul spoke of in his letter to buy generic synthroid from india the Philippians when he said that, “Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife…from selfish ambition, not sincerely” (v. 15-16). For the Approvaholic who thirsts for people’s high opinions, even good and godly things can be distorted for self-centered motives.
An Approvaholic’s self-worth is based on their performance and motivated by pride.
At the buy generic synthroid from india heart of a woman who is afraid of disappointing others is buy generic synthroid from india the belief that she can buy generic synthroid from india make everyone happy with her. Underneath the fear of saying no, letting someone down or falling short of a goal, is the lie that she can fulfill people’s expectations, do things the right way or achieve outer perfection. In fact, when we boil it down to the condition of the heart, feeding the approval addiction is just another modern-day idol.
Perhaps you’ve been working for good and godly things but have been motivated by a desire other than serving the Lord. God desires “truth in the innermost parts” more than a well-executed sacrifice (Psalm 51:6, 16-17). Maybe you’ve been accepting every extra responsibility out of the belief that you’re the only person capable of fulfilling it, and forgetting that buy generic synthroid from india God is the one who qualifies all of us to serve Him. “Not that buy generic synthroid from india we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from buy generic synthroid from india us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to buy generic synthroid from india be ministers of a new covenant,” (2 Cor. 3:5-6).
So how can we overcome our addiction to approval? It begins when we humble ourselves and buy generic synthroid from india realize how incapable we are of perfection and how unworthy we are buy generic synthroid from india of praise. Ephesians 1 says that before the world was even made every believer was chosen and buy generic synthroid from india accepted in Christ. And because He chose You, you buy generic synthroid from india were made right with and accepted by God because of Christ’s work on the cross (Rom. 8:30-31). It never has, or will have, anything to buy generic synthroid from india do with your performance. You did nothing and can do nothing to buy generic synthroid from india gain his approval. Your Heavenly Father chose to set His love on you. That’s it - and that’s grace!
God is buy generic synthroid from india far more pleased with an obedient heart that fears Him than buy generic synthroid from india the buy generic synthroid from india pretense of having it all together. When you start living to buy generic synthroid from india please your buy generic synthroid from india Heavenly Father rather than the of the approval of others, your buy generic synthroid from india time, your priorities and your heart-motivation will start lining up with His will. You may not be able to meet others’ expectations, but you will be honoring God.
You don’t have to be an Approvaholic. You don’t have buy generic synthroid from india to live in fear of being rejected, being punished, making a buy generic synthroid from india mistake or buy generic synthroid from india not living up to some perceived expectation. The same One that buy generic synthroid from india has already purchased your approval before your only Judge is the buy generic synthroid from india very One who said, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). And in Him, you are completely – and already – accepted.
[Katie McCoy is buy generic synthroid from india a regular contributor to the Girls Gone Wise blog, where this buy generic synthroid from india post was originally published]
