God Motivation is the state wherein the Christian is fueled solely by God and toward God to the glory of God.
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

To Be Motivated by God is to Imitate God

I was struck again this week by Paul's instruction to the Ephesians--"Be imitators of God..."  But what seized me all the more this round was how the imitation should work itself out.  The aspect of God's character he immediately highlighted was love.  This is the first item he has in mind that we should imitate.  But this is no easy, cushy, cotton candy or erotic kind of love.  What we are called to imitate is a love that does not consider self-exaltation, self-preservation, or worth of the recipient.  A little whiteboarding leads us quickly to that conclusion.  How does your love for others need reoriented today?

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