I Thessalonians 2: 4
For we speak as messengers who have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He is the One Who examines the motives of our hearts.
Our primary motivation for telling people the Good News that Jesus came to save us by dying for us and rising from the dead, is not to help the people, but to lift up our Lord, obeying Him in teaching everyone in all the Nations. We can help them in many temporal ways, showing them God's love; then He will do for the people what we cannot, lift them up out of the miry swamp and place their feet on the Rock when they believe.
O my Father, please search me and know me, see what wicked ways are still in me; show me my sin that I may confess it and forsake it. Cleanse me and mold me, make me an instrument approved by You to be entrusted with Your Good News.
Strengthen me in my weaknesses, that I would not seek people's approval, only Yours, for You are the One Who examines my heart, and You are the God Who makes me holy in Your sight.
It's all of You alone, and You will get all the credit, You will receive all the glory, for You alone deserve all the glory and honor and praise through all eternity.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
