The Importance of Acceptance

What would you do to be accepted? To be promoted? To be recognized by those you look up to? Whats would you do to impress them?

Ten years ago I would have said I didn’t strive for acceptance and that was either a flat out lie or just me being naive. I find now that there people who I will do things for that are out of my comfort zone to make happy. I think a lot of that goes back to me finding relationships more important then my own image of myself. Not sure if that’s right or not but its just my thought on how I function.

The greatest paradox for me is that I care so little for Christ’s acceptance. I mean the God of the universe call me His child and because of the finished work of his Son I am completely and totally accepted by Him as I am. Should that be my main focus when it comes to acceptance?