Who Is Your Audience?

What audience are you playing to?  Who are to trying to please?  Who are you looking to get a reward from?

Depending on your perspective, you might consider your life audience to be strictly business or you might consider it be your lover, your family, your friends, your neighbors. 

The question 'Who's your audience?' matters because it points to the belief about your underlying life purpose.  Who do you let judge the value of your work? . . . . the value of your life?  

That power only belongs to God.  It's obviously important to care about your audience, meeting their needs can be a matter of economic and emotional survival. 

But if you let them judge the value of your life, you've acquiesced power that only belongs to God. 

God is the only audience that isn't fickle, the only audience that isn't self-serving, the only audience that will never leave you.  God is the only audience that loves you for who you are, not what your can do for them. 

Play to God as your audience and you will not be ashamed or surprised; He will not confusingly give your reward to someone else.  God is the only audience that fully knows you and fully loves you.  And His rewards are complete and they are Eternal. 

Focus Scripture:  Jesus said 'Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.'  Matthew 6:1