When a person sets out to examine motive in their own life,
it begins with an exhaustive inventory of everything.
Do I sing to entertain and be noticed, or am I singing
because I worship and adore the Savior?
Do I preach or speak because I want to be affirmed, admired,
heard, or am I delivering the message given to me by the ministry of the Holy
Spirit?
Do I do things for other people, give of my resources to
appear benevolent, purge my conscience, redeem myself, or are my actions out of
a love for others and a conviction to do what is right?
Do I write these devotionals to appear smart, educated,
establish a mark in history, or am I writing out my experience and God’s work
in my heart?
These are questions I must ask myself regularly, not to
thwart how God may use me, but to be better used by God, so that “I must
decrease and He must increase”, be in obedience, not become a “clanging bell or
crashing cymbal”, “lift up His name throughout all the earth”, “sing of the
mercies of Lord forever”, and “make a joyful noise unto the Lord”.
When Christ gave Himself for us, He made it all about us; As
we live and minister, it must be all about Christ.
Something to ponder….
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