I like people to commend me. Sometimes I even try to do or say things that will cause people to commend me. That (in my view) is almost as bad as commending myself.

At times, though, the commendation and approval I receive has no value. Because I do not deserve it.

But what about this:

“For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth” (2 Corinthians 10:18).

Just how much do I want His approval?

And what am I willing to do and be in order to gain it?

I wonder if anything I did or said or was yesterday “earned” God’s commendation.