Pleasing the Father

True children of God will have a desire to please their Heavenly Father as Alec Motyer explains in his comment on Philippians 2.12,

‘Although the terrors of law and of God with me can have nothing to do there is a fear of God of which we know all too little and which we lose at our peril – a godly fear, growing out of recognition of weakness and of the power of temptation; a filial dread of offending God. This is not the fear of a lost sinner before the Holy One, not a fear of what he might do to us, but of the hurt we might do to him.’

Alec Motyer, BST, Philippians, pg.