27 July 2010
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...


