The Power of Motive Bledar Valca Tirana, Albania Your success in life depends on your motive. There is an old fable about a dog that boasted of his ability as a runner. One day he chased a rabbit and failed to catch it. The other dogs ridiculed him on account of his previous boasting. His reply was, You must remember that the rabbit was running for his life, while I was only running for my dinner. The incentive is all-important. Motives are to man, what fuel is to vehicles. It is the stuff that has us starting, moving and going. The letter to Hebrews is written to struggling Hebrew Christians who are tempted to go back to their way of life and practice. If Christianity is only an extension of what they believe and stand for, then retreating to Judaism is only convenient. After all there is not too much of a difference. The argument of the epistle builds to say that Christ is superior and so is His ministry. Why would one leave what is of first importance and value to something inferior? That simply does not make sense. So if today you need an incentive to have you starting, a motive to have you moving and a reason to keep on keeping on, the epistle to the Hebrews gives you just that: Christ is a great Savior and offers eternal salvation. Therefore…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2, NKJV). Bulletin. July 6, 2008
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