40 Days of Lint, Day Thirty-Three: Keeping Up Appearances

Obviously, we can’t please all the people all the time, and we’ll go mad if we try. The real question is why we do what we do: Do we live to please ourselves, not caring how it looks? Or do we make the conscious effort to sacrifice some pleasures and conveniences so Christ will be honored and others will be drawn to Him? Only God can show us what is right in each situation, but He will, if we ask.

Today's post in the 40 Days of Lint talks more about our part in this:

http://bethvice.blogspot.com/2011/04/40-days-of-lint-day-thirty-three.html