"Everything you do must be done with love." 1 Cor. 16:14 (NLT)
As many of us are two weeks into our resolutions right now, most of us if you are like me, are being truly tested and in some cases experiencing much pain and heartache. At this point is where the progress is made and the work is done. If we give ourselves to the reality that we are not doing it. I read this yesterday and thought it might be right on track to where most of us are at in our goals we have set for the new year.
this is from Rick Warrens Purpose Driven Connection -
God is more interested in why you do what you do than what you do. Godly goals -- the kind God will bless -- must be motivated by love.
People can be motivated by many things when they set goals -- peer pressure; guilt, greed, materialism, revenge, pride, envy, or jealousy. But God will only bless goals that are motivated by love.
The Bible says everything you do must be done with love. So every goal you set should be for God's glory, and every goal you set must be motivated by love.
The love that motivates us can be our love for Jesus or our love for other people. That's called the Great Commandment: Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. When a goal moves you to love God more or love other people more, then God will get behind that goal.
The Bible says, "No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us." (1 John 4:12 NLT)
Otherwise, if you set goals without love, then people become tools in your life and you stop seeing them as human beings; instead, you see them as projects and that keeps you from learning how to love. God wants us to spend our time on earth learning how to love him and to love others.
taken from "On the High Road to Surrender"
Christ Jesus is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption: that according as it is written, he that glories let him glory in the Lord. 1Cor. 1:30-31
My Spirit within you, My child, is the source of your spiritual life and strength. Look not to your own natural abilities, for My Spirit empowers the one who would walk in faith, so that he who is weak need not despair and he who feels himself to be strong shall learn not to boast; for I bring down the mighty and make strong the weak.
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