Your Motivations in the New Year
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV)
If you examine your motivations, it will reveal to you what and who you are becoming.
And here's the good news: you can change it if necessary, and you can do it at any time by simply becoming motivated to live more responsive to Jesus, more responsive to His Word, more responsive to His will.
One day, an eager young man from Stanford University applied for a part-time position at the school. The man who was doing the hiring and the interviewing said to him, “All I need now is a typist. That's the only position I have left. I filled all the other ones.” This certain young gentleman said, “Well, I'll take that job then, because that's what I do. You need a typist? I am a typist. But I can't start until next Tuesday.”
On the next Tuesday, the young man showed up and reported for work. Sometime during the day, the employer said to him, “Glad to have you here, but I’m curious…why could you not come in until today?” The young man answered, “Because after you said I could have the job, I had to run out and rent a typewriter and learn how to type.”
Do you know who that young man was? It was Herbert Hoover, who later became the 31st president of the United States. And now we understand why and how he became the president of the United States—because he fed his motivations. The motivations for his achievements were based not on who he was, but on who he believed he could become.
I don't care who you are. I don't care where you're stuck. I don't care what things are holding you in bondage today. That might be where you are, but that doesn't speak anything relative to who you can become.
Last I checked, eyes haven't seen and ears haven't heard and minds haven't conceived the great things that the Lord has in store for you. No matter how many people tell you that you can't accomplish something, you can be motivated to accomplish it if you believe it's who God is shaping you to be.
