Is the Pleasure God gets by Pleasing Himself?

Is the Pleasure God gets by Pleasing Himself?

It is not possible to believe that God must please himself to be pleased.  But there is a truth that God is pleased when his creatures allow the graciousness that has no limits each time we get beyond the point of self-expectations on our own.  

Most people who look for praise from others rely upon the accolades that they seek as assurance of gaining respect.  Respect comes at a price that will require humility from the one looking for praise.  God doesn’t need or require praise from any non-diety species and since there are no other eternal persons the praise must be found in the creatures he created.  This then becomes the very essence of receiving praise from his children which in turn pleases him.

God pleases himself by the very pleasurable manner he gets when he extends himself into the hearts and souls of his children; the very humans of which he deigned to become one through his Son Jesus Christ.  As I mentioned above that respect comes at a price which is humility.  Who can say that it is through humanity that a humble action stands behind anyone who will make themself lower than their appointed entity?  

And which human person will attest to the fact that the most humble person is God as he humbled himself to assume humanity in order to become subject to the very disbelief that humans have when they prey upon each other with nothing but evil contempt.

The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God’s love: “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.”  “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life,”  (CCC 458). 

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.  (Paul’s letter to Phil 2: 5-8).

Pleasing oneself must have the willingness to become humble as the Creator of the Universe did when he Incarnated himself which led to the Cross which pleased all of heaven;  a sacrifice that freed mankind from eternal death.  A humble sacrifice that pleases all creation in eternity.

Ralph B. Hathaway