Whose Recognition Do You Seek?

"God is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and the love you showed for his name." - HEBREWS 6:10.

 HOW do you feel when someone you know and respect forgets your name  or, even worse, does not recognize you? This can be very discouraging. Why?  Because each one of us as a natural desire to be accepted by others.  But we want them to do  more than just identify who we are. We want them to know what kind of person we are and what we have accomplished. - NUMBERS 11:16; JOB 31:6. 

But if we are not careful, this natural  desire to be appreciated can be distorted. Satan's world can make us want to be famous and important.  When this happens, we do not give our heavenly Father, Jehovah God,  the recognition and worship that he deserves.  REVELATION 4:11.

In Jesus' day, some religious leaders had the wrong view of recognition, Jesus  warned his disciples:   "Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in robes and who greetings in the marketplace and the seats in the synagogues and the most important places at evening meals." He added: "These will receive a severe judgment." (Luke 2o:46, 47)  In contrast, Jesus praised a poor widow who donated two small coins, when probably nobody else notice what she did.  (Luke 21:1-4) Obviously, Jesus' view of recognition was very different from that of others.  This article will help us to keep the right view of recognition, the view that Jehovah God wants us to have.

Next time:  Whose Recognition Do You Seek? - THE BEST KING OF RECOGNITION

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