Where is my motivation?

11/12/10

Where is my motivation I asked myself this morning when I was in the shower. This is my fourth week post surgery on my knee and sometimes the pain is overwhelming still. From my point of view, I should be able to motivate myself...after all, I am a mother, wife, full time worker, Sunday School teacher, Bible study teacher and speaker...

As I reach my kitchen after my shower, I discover to my dismay that there is NO COFFEE! I am certain now that I must go back to bed. I don't have coffee to help my brain be stimulated enough to get some motiviation. At this point I am wondering why I even got up!

Do you ever have mornings like this? I have had quite a few of these lately and I can only draw one conclusion...and that is that God is teaching me something and I have not completely learned it yet! I get the feeling that He wants me to lean COMPLETELY on Him without a desire of my self. How scary is that? And yet that is what the Word of God tells us to do as believers.

So knowing this; I sit down at the table; without coffee and slow motivation and I see my Bible on the buffet across the room. I suddenly realize this is where my help comes from! My help comes from the Lord.

Suddenly I am INCREDIBLY motivated once again to take on the day as I reach for the Bible and begin to read the Love Letter that God wrote to me! The very first Scripture that God leads me to is in Psalm 116: 5-6 "The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The Lord protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me."

That verse is TRUE! I am feeling fired up at this point over one verse! My help does come from the Lord because I really need His help each and every day.

It occurs to me that my motivation comes from the Lord! The believer WANTS and DESIRES to be in God's Will and He says that He will lead us. I am so glad of that this morning.

I am motivated now! Where is your motivation today? Is it in the God of Heaven? Are you sinking in a pit of unfulfilled desire and need a way out? Come to Jesus today and find some motivation through His Word!

Now where is the coffee?