Motivation; catalyst, incentive, stimulus, encouragement, desire, hunger, suggestion.  What a word, conjuring immediate investigation of motives and analysis of action.  Why do we do what ever it is that we do, each of us different, and how many different roads to we traverse in those pursuits?  What sponsors my thoughts, leading to emotion, eventually converted to movement, purpose and result?  And can all these aspects truly be captured in this one word?  This is a microcosm of God’s depth, that moments spent in His Word may lead to a lifetime of contemplation.  The Word lives but it does not change, it is we who revolve around its infinite Glory, each revolution taking in new facet, new perspective, even as we are changed mid orbit.

How can I judge?  For what I perceive with absolute clarity of the moment will by my nature be transformed in my next review.  As I have changed to contemplate it with new cells, new learning, growth and perhaps humility.  How may I test motive of another man’s heart when I possess not omniscience nor the understanding to fully comprehend my own drives, depths and weakness?  Why should I even dally upon such folly unless to somehow deflect the true introspection in review of my own thoughts, actions and repentance?  Taking my eyes off the road even for a moment to review your intentions puts me in danger of trespass, falter, failure or hazard.  I am not your keeper nor you mine, perhaps if we walk hand in hand we may avoid the pitfalls of singular focus.

Where are we headed?  I truly do not know the path or travails of this life but I know the destination.  I cannot take my own inventory even in as much as I will fool myself to thinking that somehow I have stumbled upon a recipe for success and suffer miserably.  This pursuit is simple, stay on the path, look for His light, read and write His Word upon my heart so that it shall direct me to righteousness.  That is not difficult but totally impossible.  So simple yet sublime in detail and intricacy beyond mortal reason.  I shutter to think that some day I will understand and for that I am relieved, because right now, I know but a smidgen.  Praise You Lord Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord of Glory, who was, and is and is to come.  We love you so much Father.