What's your focus?

This Sunday we start a new study through the book of Philippians called "In Search of..." The whole point of this study is to ask the question, "What are you in search of?" Are you looking for truth? for joy? for peace? What is it that you are longing for?

I'm finding that as I think about what it is that I truly desire I find behind that a greater longing for God. Or another way to say this is, behind every desire we have is a deeper longing for the one who created desire within us, The Creator.

I'm also discovering that the things that I thought would bring life are only temporary. Hopefully asking the question, "what is your focus" will lead us to a place of looking more intently into our deepest desires and finding God as the focus and center of those desires.

So, what's your focus?

Where are we going?

A friend and I were walking the other day and he reminded me of the crucial importance of inspiration as we live out our lives. He asked me, Mike what motivates you? I pondered his question for a moment, and the direction that he was taking this conversation. After a while of thinking I said, "My relationship with Christ and the desire to tell others how to be in that relationship motivates me to do what I do each day." I began to see his point.

As a pastor I often ask and expect God's people to serve and serve without motivation. Every so often I need to remind myself and all who serve with us as to why we are doing this whole thing we call church. We serve because Christ calls us to. We serve because He first served us. We serve because we have discovered a life like no other in Jesus and we want the entire world to know the joy that we have found in Christ. As you walk with God this week, take the time to rediscover what motivates and inspires you. So, what motivates you?