“And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone. For I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
– John 8:29
What a great verse John 8:29 is. Think about this, Jesus is saying, the Father sent me, he’s with me. He never leaves me alone and I always do things that are pleasing to him. So I read that and I think, yes, there’s a sense in which that was absolutely the description of Jesus’ life. At the same time, it’s also a description of how I’m intended to live, and you’re intended to live. Because Jesus has not left us alone, this is what he promised in the great commission. I will be with you.
By God’s grace we can trust that He will never forsake us. Let’s long to live every day to please Him.
This Verse Reminds Us That Jesus and His Spirit Are With Us
Jesus is with us through his spirit in us and then he says, I always do the things that are pleasing to the Father. Isn’t this how we want to live? Don’t you think about your day? Don’t you want to please him all day long?
So what would that look like? For you and I to please God, who is with us all day long, with our thoughts and our desires, and our words, and our decisions. Wow, let’s pray for that.
John 8:29 Prays That We Please God Everyday
God we know, we believe, we trust that you are with us. That you have not left us alone. You who sent us are with us and so we pray please help us to do all day long today that which is pleasing to you. So Lord, make our thoughts, our desires, our words, our decisions pleasing to you. May the words of our mouth and the meditation of our heart be pleasing in your sight, oh Lord, our rock and our redeemer. Therefore, we want you to be pleased in all that we do today. In fact, even in the way we love people around us and the way we interact with our family. So be pleased. And the way we work, be pleased. In the way we do whatever we do in our community or city today.
Where we go, the people we meet, God we pray that you’d be pleased. Above all, in the things that others see and the things that no one else sees. So God we pray that you would be pleased.
So please be with us. Just as you promised, and be pleased in us we pray. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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David Platt serves as a pastor in metro Washington, D.C. He is the founder of Radical.
David received his Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and is the author of Don’t Hold Back, Radical, Follow Me, Counter Culture, Something Needs to Change, Before You Vote, as well as the multiple volumes of the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series.
Along with his wife and children, he lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
