What motivates you? Hunger is a great motivator. The desire for pleasure or equally, the desire to avoid pain, is a powerful motivator. If you’ve ever played a contact sport then you understand how the desire to avoid pain can motivate you to adjust a lay up or duck to miss a fastball. What motivates you? In the complexities of your life with all its varied dimensions – social, physical, spiritual, financial, educational – do you have a singular underlying motivation? During the three brief years Jesus spent with his disciples, his closest friends and followers, he was constantly focusing on motivation. Matthew 20 gives us an incredible comparison between two motivations – Jesus’ and the disciples’, specifically James & John. Here Jesus predicts his graphic death and resurrection, foretelling events to come both painful and glorious. The next verse begins, “Then” as if the mother of James & John waited only until...