Motivations

People tend to base decisions on one of four motivations in life:

1. Circumstances

That’s where whatever the circumstances are dictates our behavior, our decisions, our actions.

2. Conveniences

We all like convenient things, don’t we? We love microwave ovens, television remote controls and dry cleaners. Why? Because they make life easier for us. But is convenience the best basis for decision making?

3. Criticisms

As much as we all like convenience, we all hate criticism. Many decisions are made either in response to criticism, or simply to avoid it.

4. Convictions.

This is the only one that really works. Only decisions that are based on your convictions will last and leave a lasting legacy.

The people who have made the greatest impact on this world, for good or bad, are those who had the deepest convictions. They weren’t necessarily the smartest people, the brightest people, the most educated, the wealthiest, or even the most famous. But they were people of conviction.

If you’re going to build convictions, you need to build them on something that’s going to last. But how do you do that when it seems that everything changes? Fads change, fashions change. Psychology changes. Even science textbooks change. We keep learning more and more. So if you’re going to build convictions you have to build them on something solid; something absolute.

There’s only one thing that never changes. That is the truth of God.

If it was true a thousand years ago, it will be true today and it will be true a thousand years from tomorrow because truth does not change.

The Bible says this in Isaiah 40:8 (NLT), “The grass withers, and the flowers fade, but the Word of our God stands forever.” What was that last word? How long? And just how long is forever?

The Word of God doesn’t change. It is absolute.

My encouragement to you today is simple: Build your life on absolutes. The Bible says that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Sounds pretty absolute to me!