It is wonderful to be liked by people. It is even more wonderful to have a lot of friends.

There is a danger though when it is more important for you to be liked by people than to do the will of God. That kind of person is commonly referred to as a people pleaser.

I am not implying that we should not be servants to others. What I am implying is that we should serve God first.

I received the call to be a Christian writer in the year of 2000. At that time I was writing plays for a single’s ministry associated with a church. I would not only write the plays but I also acted, directed and produced them.

They were very well received but I was exhausted and I had not earned a penny for all of the hard work I was doing.

I was also sending out free content to a friend of mine out on the East coast which she put into a spiritual newspaper called “The Spiritual Voice.”

This took a lot of time and effort but it also did not result in an income so I pulled out of both of those opportunities to work on a novel which I wrote over the next ten years.

During this time I was usually working a full time job and a part time job as a nurse while raising three children as a single mother.

In May of 2012, I quit a very successful career as a nurse. It was my choice and I realized that it would create a very difficult financial situation for me to do so but I felt I had no other choice.

I was tired of walking out the door every day in conflict. The conflict originated from what I knew I was destined to do and what I was actually doing.

I was called to be a Christian writer but I was doing what everyone else wanted me to do which was to be a nurse.

I struggled with discipline daily as I tried to get my novel ready for publication.

I was planning on going back into nursing last fall and then I broke my collar bone. I had medical restrictions on my right arm for three months so I could not work but my doctor kept saying, “You can type on your keyboard but that is about all you can do.”

During this time I reflected on all of the research I had read over the past year and I decided to launch this blog.

As of today this blog has only been running a bit over six months. Since October 28 of last year it has gained over 534,000 hits.

I don’t know any tricks as to how to get that much traffic. I have not paid any expensive consultant to teach me how to be a successful blogger. To date I have only read one book on blogging and I did not finish it.

All I have done is to submit to God’s will for my life which is to become a Christian writer. All else has been His work, not mine.

I was successful as a nurse but in no way would my nursing career compare to my success as a blogger.

I demolished the idol of people pleasing and I put God on the throne of my life, sacrificing my savings and my reputation to follow His will.

When I got my priorities right I achieved a level of success far beyond anything I could have ever imagined. My blog has extended internationally in addition to achieving amazing growth.

If you choose to please God your dreams can become a reality far beyond what you imagined. If you choose to please people you may be risking your dreams and your eternal destination.