Core Motivation

What is your core motivation for living? This is the window to who you really are and what will drive you in your life. This will explain the things you pursue and why you do them.

Many of us have right intentions but intentions do not define us or shape us. It is our desires that define us. Desire is what will define the path that we take.
James 1:14-15
But each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

The difference between the desires and intentions, whether they are godly or not can be seen in the lives of the Israelites and their leader Moses. Moses, was brought up in Pharoah's house and enjoyed a good life and was in the cream of Egpytian society. He had much entanglements with Egypt but his inner desire was not to pursue the world but to pursue God. He gave up all that Egypt offered to him, to do what God called him to do. On the other hand, the Israelites were under slavery in Egypt and had a harsh time but everytime they underwent any discomfort they longed to go back to Egpyt and grumbled against Moses and God. If anyone truly should have missed Egypt it should have been Moses as he was brought up in the best of the Egyptian world, but you never see Moses complain. He gladly gave up all that Egypt stood for and suffered so that he could know God more.

The difference between the Israelites and Moses was that the Israelites intended to follow God while Moses truly desired God above all else. The core motivation for Moses' life was knowing God and loving Him for who He was. The core motivation of the Israelites was to follow God only if God met their desires.

What is your core motivation? Are you in the Moses camp or the camp of the Israelites? What is driving you? What are you pursuing? Let us ask God that we may be like Moses, having desires just to know God and pursue Him for who He is.There is nothing compared to knowing Him.

Mark 8:34-35
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
Phil 3:7-8
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.