Remember, whoever you are trying to please is accountable for his own life, and you are accountable for yours. Whenever you live for someone else, he controls two lives, his and yours. Yet we are the ones who will answer for the life that is truly ours—the only one God gives us. Staying mindful of that makes you a partner with God, instead of with the people who want to control you. Living to please God will bring you to the best version of yourself, the one he created you to be. It is not about being “judged” or condemned by God, but about choosing the best possible master in all the
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