Everyone’s life is driven by something!
“I observed that the basic motive for success is the driving force of envy and jealousy.” Ecclesiastes 4:4 (LB)
What is the driving force in your life?
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. There are five great benefits of living a purpose-driven life:
- - Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life…
- - Simplifies your life …
- - Focuses your life …
- - Motivates your life.
- - And knowing your purpose prepares you for eternity.
Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what
God says. Living to create an earthly legacy is a shortsighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an
eternal legacy. You weren’t put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.
What are the most common drivers for people's actions?
affluence affection affirmation accomplishments achievements etc .
What is currently driving you life and why?
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Yes, I am driven.
Spirit-led and Spirit-driven.
There was a time, for many years, that I was driven by my work, not because I wanted to become successful and/or famous and definitely not because I wanted to becomes rich, not on a teacher’s salary do you become rich. I was job-driven out of a sense of responsibility of desiring to do the best that I could.
But I am blessed to know a pastor, who has and continues to tell his congregation that each person in it needs to embrace eternity, and then shares in his sermons ways in which each person can be Word-guided, Spirit-led, and Spirit-driven here on earth in order to spend eternity with God.
When you have “the eyes to see and the ears to hear,” there really is no other purpose worth pursuing nor no other purpose worth being driven by than to serve the God, Who sent His Son to “serve rather than be served,” and to embrace the existence of an eternity by living for the future during the present by accomplishing, as best you can, Christ’s command to “go and make disciples of all men” while making a difference for God.
Work-driven? Yes.
But now it is not job-driven.
Now it is work-driven, led, guided, and enabled by the Spirit, for a higher purpose and not for me but for Him; and I couldn’t be happier.
Which then begs the question: What is the definition of happiness?
do you remember the happiness quotient?
Expectation x Experience –> Happiness
Happiness is a function of what we think we deserve and what we actually experience. We can have much more than other people in the world and be much more miserable because our expectations are outrageously high. Similarly, when we surprise someone with a gift they are very happy because their expectations were low.
Most people believe that God promised them happiness. He did not. But He did promise them joy. And a joy that comes from His strength. The end of my sentence would have sounded quite awkward if I had said, “…I couldn’t be joyer.”
Thank you for your definition, kettle, I had forgotten it; but in conjunction with it, I will say that I personally have little, but I have much. I want little, but I want much. I expect little, but I expect much.
Are these three statements not examples of paradoxes?
Are these three statements not examples of how Christ lived His life?
And so, kettle, what do these paradoxical expectations define?
Today, while reading the book entitled “Power Surge” by Michael W. Foss, I was struck by the following short paragraph which is relevant to the original topic of “What Drives Your Life?” as well as to my response to the rhetorical question. I share it, for whatever it is worth.
“We can, as Christ teaches, go back to get to our future and recliam for today the old treasure of discipleship as the primary reason for being a part of the church, that is, the body of Christ” [p. 29].