Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ~ Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)
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Motivation to get a job done or stay the course is key to any successful project or business -- dreams don't come true without keeping your feet to the pavement. So motivation becomes big business in and of itself -- posters, seminars, morale-building tools and events! All trying to keep people focused and enthused to stay the course and keep the work going.
But that's hard to do sometimes, huh?
In the business world, management struggles to keep the machine moving when motivation is missing. And motivation gets sucked out of people when 14 co-workers get laid off in a week, when mandatory furlough days take a hefty chunk out of the paycheck, when you forget what the word 'raise' means, when the whole point of being on the job becomes blurred by the stress of doing more with less. And a simple poster on the wall that says, "Believe and Succeed..." just doesn't do much to motivate. So, too, in the Christian journey...
We can have our little Christian slogans to try to pep people up when the going gets rough...
~ Let go, and let God...
~ All things work together for good...
~ Too blessed to be depressed...
...but they probably don't do a whole lot for actually motivating people to fight the good fight when the battle is raging, huh?
The writer of Hebrews gave us the best motivational speech for staying the course when he candidly pointed to Jesus in Hebrews 12. He threw away the motivational fluff and got down to brass tacks -- Jesus died a horrible death on the cross, with all the pain and shame that went with it, but He never took His eyes off of the prize. For Him, that prize was layered with the souls of humanity whom He loves, souls that were dying without His help. We were His motivation to keep going! So God encourages us to remember Jesus and His example, and to keep the prize of Him and His kingdom in view when the Christian life gets hard.
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. ~ 2 Peter 2:13 (NIV)
When the going gets rough, don't give up, my friend -- keep fighting the good fight of faith in God, keeping your eyes on Jesus.
Love,
Joelene
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