pleasing God

hey y`all
sorry it took me a couple days to do this. i've got another one to write & i'll tell you about my day yesterday then, for this one im just gunna jump right into the devotion, b/c i've got a lot of really good verses :] so i did my devotion on Pleasing God, because thats something every Christian wonders, what can i do to please God? so i found some verses on it:]
Galations 2:19-20 says, "for i through the law am dead to the law, that i might live unto God, i am crucified with Christ: nevertheless i live; yet not i, but Christ liveth in me: and the life of which i now live in the flesh i live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" i love those verses. they tell us we're dead with Christ, but now he lives in us. and we need to live our lives by faith...soo step 1 to pleasing God:
1. Live by faith.
Luke 16:15 says, "And he said unto them, ye are they which justify yourselves before me; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God" this verse says us God knows our hearts, so things we hide from men, we cannot hide from God. also, things that men think are great, God, not so much. so this gives 2 more steps to pleasing God:
2. God knows our hearts, so we should think pure things and have good and caring hearts.
3. Follow God, not men. a lot of things that are acceptable and routine to men, God looks down upon.
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 says, "Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him. For we must all appera before the judgement seat of Christ that every one may recieve, the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad" in other words, we all must go before God, and he has seen everything we've done good and bad. so here is my 4th point:
4. we should think about what we do before we do it, we should think to ourselves, would this please God? or would it break his heart??
i love y`all
God Bless!
- crystal jade