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What Is Your Motivation?

Today will be my first day back to work following the Heart Attack. I know what I want to do, but I also know what I need to do. (Take it slow!) First giving honor to God who never left my side during this time of recovery. I give thanks for my Pastors Gary and Patricia Stern for their support and leadership, even while going through their own health issues. I give thanks to my wife, Cheryl for her love and constant vigilance to ensure I was not doing to much. I give thanks for my daughter Marie who was my at home nurse, secretary, maid, and computer technician. I give thanks for my daughter Peyton for being understanding and supportive, and I give thanks to everyone who sent up prayers for me and my family. Thank you all; God bless you is my prayer.

This week my Pastor Gary Stern preached "What do you want? - What do you need?" He stated that we all have basic needs and then we have wants. He outlined a few of the needs people have and a few wants people long for. My question to all of you this week is "What's your motivation?" Coming from Pastor Gary's message, many of us know what we need and know what we want but what motivates us in obtaining the desires of our wants?

My point is that Pastor really hit me up side the head with his message, What is my motivation in getting back to work? Is it to show that I am getting better? Is it to ensure that my position at work is secure and I will not be forced into retirement? Or is it to be a living testimony to how good God has been to me? I know what I want, but what I need is to be a testimony.

Nevertheless, our flesh continues to allow our emotions to take away from where God has placed us and where he wants us to be. We often talk about "money," "a car," "a house," clothes," etc. What is the motivation to have all these things? Let us consider what happens to our earthly investments. Our car will soon rust away and wear out. Our clothes will soon be out of style. Our house is slowly decaying and falling apart. Our stocks and shares could crash at any time. There is no such thing in this life as a sure thing investment. What is our true motivation?

Well, here is my prospective... As I am recovering God is giving me the wisdom to understand what motivates me but in a different form. A purifying and cleansing has taken place within me and the Holy Spirit is stirred up inside of me and by allowing God to give me all that I need, what more motivation do I need? What more do you need?

Pastor Gary thank you for that blessing of the word on yesterday. I know what I want, I know what I need, and I know what my motivation is. JESUS!
Have a blessed week!
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