Trusting God or Pleasing God: they are two divergent ways to live the Christian life. Pleasing God or trusting God represent the inner motives of our hearts. We want to please God but we are not called to live by our own strength and discipline and motivation. We are called to trust in God and depend on him. Then God will do what pleases him, and will work out his best plan for our lives. May God give us the patience to trust God and follow his leading in the new year 2025.