What are you driven by?

Some people are driven by guilt.
They are restlessly wandering the earth without a purpose.
Our past makes us who we are, but we don't have to be its captive.

"What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven!...
What relief for those who have confessed their sins and God has cleared their record!" Psalms 32:1 and 5

Some people are driven by resentment and anger.
They fuel each other.
There poisonous thoughts are repeated over and over,
like practicing lines for a play.
They either become clams or bombs.
You will hurt, they live free.
Your past is past! It cannot change!
Your "enemy" will continue to kill you as long as YOU allow them to keep hitting you and keep your defending arms down.

"To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do." Job 5:2

After all, God never resented us.
We killed is only child.

Some people are driven by fear.
It drives them right past opportunity.
You hold the keys to the prison you built for yourself.
It keeps you from being who God wants you to be.
Your keys are faith and love.
Unlock your cage.

"Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life- fear of death, fear of judgement- is one not yet fully formed in love" 1 John 4:18

Some people are driven by materialism.
To have, have, have becomes the goal.
Constantly further away.
Things do not change,
so we always want them bigger and better.
Self-worth and net-worth are not the same thing.
Money doesn't equal security.
Real security can be found in the never-changing.
The one thing that is already the biggest and the best.
Your relationship with God.

"And he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure." Isaiah 33:6    

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21   

Some people are driven by a need for approval.
Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.
People don't watch every word that exits there mouth.
You will get broken easily.
Controlled by opinions like the controller to a video game.
The key that won't fit to unlock,
is the one that tries to please every man.
When every man is different,
some good, some bad.
One slip of someones tongue and your heart is crushed.
A misread look changes your mind.
Constantly on the scale of am I good enough?
When your worth is written in the Bible.
He created you.
He cared for you before your birth.
Because you weren't worth it?
I don't think so.
Find your purpose in God.

"Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other." Matthew 6:24a

Will it be man or God?

A life can be driven, but without the right driver, knowing the destination, you will be lost and get no where.
If guilt drives your car, you will be constantly in reverse.
Never going forward.
Turning down road after road,
never really reading the signs.

If anger is your driving force, your house and car will just burst into flames.
From the gasoline you yourself poured and lit.
You will be stuck.
With no where to go and no one left to hurt,
except for yourself.
 
If fear drives your car of life, you will never leave the driveway or enter the home.
Just sit in darkness with the doors locked.

If materialism drives you around,
you will never get anywhere
because you will be constantly searching for the best place to go.
You might not ever get to be driven.
You are too busy constantly replacing your car.
Never getting a chance to enjoy what you already own.

If you are driven by the want for approval,
it is like having a car without gas in your tank.
You need someone to tell you where to go.
Without their approval you can't leave.
They will end up laughing at you anyways,
because you never go anywhere.
So indecisive,
so influenced.
You would change the paint color on your car if I hated it.
Do you even know what your favorite color is?
Find your worth in God.

Be Spirit driven.
Let God take the wheel.
He will guide you to Heaven.
He will show you what's real.
He will give you a purpose and guide you with His plan.
He created you and loves you.
Trust him, who better could understand, when He created man?
I promise it is true.
You are worth more then silver and gold.
He is your courage and you are a mighty, conqueror.
He will be what you need, and will heal you, whether young or old.
Never do you have to live in prisoning horror.
Your future will become your present and present becomes your past.
Don't let guilt, fear, anger, stuff, or people, only God's purpose for you last.

(These are my reflections for Chapter 3 of "The Purpose Driven Life")