Fear In The Beloved Analysis

Step 3 The root of what causes the desire to people please is very deep and complex. On more of a surface level it is a deep desire for others approval and getting affirmation from others. What runs deep and beneath that is the question of why do I feel like I need to seek affirmation from others? This is the question that I had to meditate on as I did this project. The goal of people pleasing is to make others think highly of you and like you. There are a lot of different motives that factor into this.
Fear is the motive and root for a lot of my desire to people please. Three of my biggest fears are the fears of loneliness, man, and rejection. The fear of loneliness tells the lie that you are all alone, in order to make you lose sight of God’s promise of “I am with you always, even …show more content…
Verses 4-6 of this passage state, “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.” One of the roots of my sin of people pleasing comes from a desire for affirmation and acceptance. When I strive to seek affirmation from people, I know I will never feel as if I truly have it or will have to keep striving to attain it. I lose sight of the fact that I am already chosen in Christ “before the foundation of the world.” Being chosen by the creator of the universe, the one true God is so much more satisfying than the approval of man. This passage also shows how as believers we are children of God. This is our identity, and as a believer, I should not try to place my identity in anything else. When I am constantly in this mindset, I am less tempted to fall into the sin of people pleasing because my mind is focused on the right