In the movie, “Chariots of Fire,” Eric Little makes the comment to his sister, “I sense His pleasure.” I remember sitting in the theater having that line grab my heart. I want to sense His pleasure in me when I do something that pleases Him, I thought. What a great way to know His will, sensing His pleasure when I did His will. That is the ambition of my life now, to do those things that please Him. I believe that as I work at sensing His pleasure I will get better and better at it, my heart will become sensitive to his pleasure in me. I also believe that when I please Him with my actions, choices and words that I will feel His joy in my heart. I will feel happy because He feels happy in me. 

1 John 3:22 and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

John 8:29 for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”

2 Corinthians 5:9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.