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| Bible Before Business As Usual -- #23 Christians Need Motivation Too |
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1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Quotation: “Isn’t it possible that tradition, custom, a comfortable rut, a familiar lifestyle, may keep us from the greatest thing life offers? And if so, isn’t custom a deadly drug, tranquilizing us, preventing changes that will be wholly for the good?” –Clement of Alexandria
Move Into Motivation: Those are good questions. Perhaps we are being held back from a better life by business as usual -- custom and tradition.
It is easy to settle into a routine both in our behaviors and in our thinking. Then routine stretches into habit and habit keeps us doing and thinking the same things over and over again, even if those thing are producing bad results for us.
We often forget to evaluate outcomes in our life. Are our thoughts and behaviors producing the results that we want in our life? If not, we can step outside our comfort zone — think new thoughts, do new things, and quit our self-destructive, pain producing attitudes and actions. We don’t have to allow custom to keep us doing and thinking what isn’t producing a joyous, hope-filled life.
There is a way for everyone to find peace, contentment, satisfaction, fulfillment, encouragement, gratitude, and good cheer. All we have to do is leave our ruts and search till we find the thoughts and behaviors that will produce those outcomes! Those thougts and behaviors are presented to us in the Bible. All we have to do is read and apply.
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| To add a comment to "Bible Before Business As Usual -- #23 Christians Need Motivation Too" |
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| March 28, 2009 |
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| Amen Steve |
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| March 28, 2009 |
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| Well said Steve. |
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| March 28, 2009 |
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| Amen, it is our comfort zones that leave us with our same mundane existence!! |
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| March 28, 2009 |
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Thanks Steel, CraftsReen, & Sis. Christianity is supposed to be lived as a challenge. Grace gets us in the race so that we can earnestly seek to love, follow, and obey Jesus every day. |
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| March 28, 2009 |
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Steve, I think that Jesus touched on your thought when he said woe to those who are at ease in Zion. We too easily get comfortable in our religiosity and forget about the need to continue growing in Grace (Sanctification). May you have a blessed weekend and pray for me: Tomorrow I have 4 sermons to preach by the grace of God. Blessings Pastor Chuck |
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| March 28, 2009 |
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| May God's annointing and power flow through you tomorrow, Prentiss UMC. |
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| March 29, 2009 |
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| Amen. The Word is our source. |
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| March 29, 2009 |
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| It's our comfort zones, our customs our rituals, our habits that take us straight down the road to complacency and there we do stop growing,we do stop learning new things and we get our focus off serving God and others and on wholly on ourselves and going strictly through the motions as business as ususal. |
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| March 29, 2009 |
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Preach it, Gene.
racunpoodle: Excellent comment. |
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| March 29, 2009 |
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Steve, this reminds me of that spiritual fest in Jersualem when the boy Jesus was left behind. When his parents found him he replied, "I must be about my Father's business". This expression has mistakenly been claimed by ministers and preachers as their's and the body of saints capitulate willingly.
However, it is no more the domain of ministers, than it is the entire body of believers to understand and embrace in all we do as the Father's business. The world has its standard of success as the goal of any business venture, but our calling is a motivation to be faithful. Being faithful may involve falling in the particular business (and that is NOT necessarily a formal, for-profit enterprise) not as punishment or because God has "defeated us", but for others to behold the glory of God through us even when we stumble. |
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| March 29, 2009 |
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| Some how 1 Jn 5:13-21 comes to mind. |
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