Why do anything? It’s not like I have to. I don’t have to help, listen, care, obey, serve anyone. (wrong) BUT beyond obligation, I want to. I want to help out. I want to listen to you. I want to show I care, ACTUALLY care: like not just with my words. I want to serve and obey: Obey God, serve Him and others.
How can we go from the ‘me’ world to the ‘you and me’ world? Because He first Loved us, we can love. We are motivated by Love.
Love for a man who would leave home to rescue me when I needed it. Love for a Father in a simple response of the warm caring He is showing me. Love for Him makes me love you. Love for Him makes me love me.
We all have to fuel up somehow.. some way to refill, to get motivated. Many things drain us, some things drain us over and over again. Some things hit us like a tornado, and we are left feeling lifeless on the ground: no motivation to even help ourselves.
Some things we do are motivated by fear; fear of rejection-bow to peer pressures, fear of failure-over-working, fear of mom-just doing whatever she says just to keep the ‘peace’.
If we call ourselves by the Name of our Savior, Christ, and we are Christians, we have His Love and His example to motivate us. What a Love! What a life! And he came for this: ‘to give us life abundantly.. a full life’.
I will help. I will listen. I will care. I will obey. I will serve. Because I’m motivated by Him. By His Love.
(thanks Brian)