Motivated
People who have a saving faith
in God will be motivated to please Him. "But
with out faith it is impossible to please Him:
for he that comes to God must believe that He is
and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6). In
Hebrews, chapter 11, the writer explains that
Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob,
Joseph, Moses, Rahab, all pleased God because
through their faith, they were motivated to obey
Him no matter what the cost. The apostle Paul,
one of the most motivated Christians of the first
century, explains that his life was so motivated,
not because he was self-motivated but because he
was Christ-motivated (Galatians 2:20). The
Philippian Christians were motivated to obey God,
not because they believed in Paul, but because
God motivated them - they believed in God (Philippians
2:12-13)
A faith
that doesn't motivate is a dead faith (James 2:17).
A church that isn't motivated or isn't actively
doing the Lord's will is a dead church with a
dead faith. So let's be active; let's be alive;
let's be motivated-let's continue to grow in
faith! "So faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God" (Romans
10:17).
(From the
Bulletin Digest.)
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