Outside of your immediate family, most relationships require you to do something for the other person to be pleased with you. Your boss expects you to do your work. Your teacher is looking for effort and diligence in the classroom. If you're not careful, you can begin to think that God needs your good deeds in order to be pleased as well. Pastor Bill teaches us today, though, that the basis of pleasing God can't come from deeds. He simply asks for your trust. Your deeds have to be based on faith in God.