Fresh Motivation
Theme of the Week: Your Driving Force
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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Key Bible Verse: We are perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. … We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going 2 Corinthians 4:8, 9. Bonus Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:1-12
Major Jack Wyman was a hard-working, dedicated officer. After a top domestic Air Force assignment, he was assigned to a job outside the country, performing superbly. But the officer in the U.S. who wrote his performance review didn't know Jack personally. He didn't give Jack the top rating.
Then the promotion board met to select people for lieutenant colonel. When the list came out, he wasn't on it. Crushed, Jack knew his career was destroyed. His motivation to work flew out the window.
Then Jack began to think—and pray. Wasn't God sovereign? Was this the worst thing that could happen to him? He began to see his entire career in a different light. He determined to keep going and to work hard. He found himself thanking God for the trial.
When Jack went on mandatory retirement as a major, he saw it as a great opportunity. He not only survived, but he also regained his motivation, launching into a successful second career. He'd lost his fear of failure.
If God is the source of our life, then He'll sustain us through periods of loss.
—Jerry White in Dangers Men Face
My Response: How can trusting God's sovereign will for me keep me going despite apparent setbacks?
Thought to Apply: We are not at our best perched at the summit; we are climbers, at our best when the way is steep.—JOHN GARDNER (educator & writer)
Adapted from Dangers Men Face (NavPress, 1997) by permission.
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Work in my life, Lord, causing me to be motivated by eternally significant goals.
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