Mixed Motives

When you do what the Lord tells you to do and people criticize you for it or question it, don't worry about it.  You are not trying to please others.  Your aim is to please the Lord.  Do that and you will be right.  Now, some things people say the Lord tells them, does not come from the Lord.  It may come from late night pizza or delusional dysfunctions, but everything that has been attributed to the Lord does not jive with Scripture.  If it does not jive, it is not alive...or something like that.  However, if it is consistent with the Lord and IS from the Lord, who cares what anyone else thinks?  They say what they say with mixed motives.  Let me show you an example-
Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. ⁴ But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, ⁵ “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” ⁶ He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. - John 12.3-6  (www.lifejournal.cc)

Mary did what God told her to do.  That is what matters.  Judas said what he said for the wrong reasons.  We don't always know why people say what they say (they may-except for Jesus- not have known why he said what he did), but what does it matter?

Do what the Lord tells you to do and don't worry about what other people think.

Oh, and by the way, let others do what God tells them to do and don't get so worried about what other people do.  Just do what the Lord tells you to do!