Motive....

Motive...

* "A reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious: 
synonyms:
reason, motivation, motivating force, rationale, grounds, cause, basis, object, purpose, intention, incentive, inducement, incitement, lure, inspiration, stimulus, stimulation, spur.  ...." Yahoo definition 

The question....why do we do what we do...for self recognition or for Christ???  And then, why am I doing this?   Do I want the accolades or am I doing this for the kingdom, giving glory to God?....

Testing my motives takes me to my heart...my mind...my soul....what is really directing this act or thought...these words...?

Just reading the following scripture  portions in the two translations dig deep into motives, my motives...asking myself what and why....my humanness, my sinfulness gets in the way so many times...when I want the fore front....not giving glory to the very creator who made me the way I am...who chose me to bear his likeness and not my own...to be more and more transformed to His image and less of me...

Thank YOU that mold us to have the same motives that you do in humility of mind, heart, soul...not looking to ourselves but to your example...making your joy complete...as well as our own ...

Philippians 2:1-8 the Message.  If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.


Philippians 2:1-11 NIV Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.