WHAT CAN I DO TO PLEASE GOD?

I frequently hear men talk about wanting to please God in their lives, and trying to please God in their behavior. Perhaps you even ask yourself, "What can I do to please God?" In a word, NOTHING! Your best deeds of righteousness are "filthy rags" in the sight of a holy God. It is not possible for men and women whose hearts are evil to do that which is good in God's sight. All of our self-righteous efforts at pleasing God (prayer, Bible reading, church attendance, morality, sacrifices, etc.), are no more pleasing to God than drunkenness, adultery, or murder - (Read Isaiah 66:1-4). The only man who ever has pleased God is the man Christ Jesus. God is not pleased with anything less than perfection. He will not accept anything less than perfection. God accepts the perfect righteousness of his Son. He will not and cannot, in consistency with his holy character, accept less. GOD IS PLEASED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. All who are in Christ are pleasing to God, always pleasing to God. The only way for sinful men to please God is to give up trying to please God, and trust Christ alone for all their righteousness and all their redemption. When will we ever learn that all our righteousness is in the Substitute?