What's Your Motivation???

Ya know...sometimes I really don’t know why I do what I do. Why do I continue to pursue an education when I am so ready to be done with school? Why do I continue to invest in my character when it seems like all it brings is pain? Why press on? Why take initiative? What it all boils down to is why even live? We all need reminders of why we do what we do. We all need that inner drive that nudges us when our will power is depleted, that hand that pushes us up the hill when we think we can’t possibly take another step. We all need motivation. What’s yours?

Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV
(28) Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
(29) He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
(30) Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
(31) but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Why would God energize us and give us strength if we had no purpose? Have you ever seen someone on a Monster that really didn’t need it because they weren’t doing anything that required a bunch of energy? They act like a chicken with it’s head cut off!!! They can’t sit still because they are all jittery and they begin to talk to fast for their brain, so whatever they say comes out as a meaningless slur. Where is all that energy going? They’re not doing anything productive with the energy it provides, there just sitting there enjoying the feeling of the energy rush...an energy rush they can’t get anywhere else. Pretty soon they gotta get another drink so they can sit around and bask in the wonderful feeling of the rush. Some become dependant, even addicted, to this energy garbage. Do we do the same with the energy God gives us?

We were made for a purpose!!! We are given health and ability for a reason!!!

So why do what I do??? What is my motivation for my actions??? What is it that I am “called” to do??? Why did God put me on earth???

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV
(37) And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
(38) This is the great and first commandment.
(39) And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 4:19 ESV
(19) And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV
(19) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
(20) teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

John 21:15-17 ESV
(15) When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
(16) He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
(17) He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

Matthew 10:38 ESV
(38) And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

The cross was Jesus’s purpose, it was his burden, it was the reason he came to earth.

So what is your purpose??? Jesus didn’t worry about giving each individual disciple specific instructions for what they were supposed to do. His instructions were general and incredibly clear. Love God, love your neighbor, follow Jesus, and GO and reach the lost of the world!!! Don’t worry about specifics for the time being, God will work those out, but you have to take the first step. Don’t just stand there and knock on the door, what if it is unlocked??? The door won’t open unless you push...and doors can’t close on you unless you open them.

My motivation, my purpose...the lost!!!