Between you and God

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." Mother Theresa.



I read this and thought how true-- I am a "workman approved by God". It doesn't matter what people think I should be doing as long as I am doing what God says I should be doing. It doesn't matter if no one else approves of what I do as longs as God does. At the end of the day, all I need to know is that God approved--and if I am not doing what he wants me to do--he will deal with me on that.