3 Great Motivation to Stay Focus Living as Disciple of Jesus (Christian)

Do you remember the feelings when you first became a Christian? Life seems so beautiful, so happy, you are so spirited and passionate to do GOD’s will, feels like there is nothing on earth could make you stop loving GOD. But as time gone by, we often forget those feeling of first love toward GOD. Maybe we get bored to do what the Holy Bible commanded us to do, maybe we no longer feels GOD’s love for us, maybe we are persecuted, etc. Many things can take away those ‘first love’ we had.
Strong motivation are needed to stay focus as a Christian, it can make us strong to bear the burden of this world, it helps us to focus on GOD, not the trouble we had. Here are 5 motivation that keep me strong as a Christian :

1. Love, Faith, and Hope

1 Corinthians 13 : 8
“Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”

1 Corinthians 13 : 13
“Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Love is the strongest motivation there is, when we love someone we will do everythings for him/her, we will endure everything that come in our way. Love is the main reason GOD created us, GOD had proven how much HE love us by sacrificing HIS only son (John 3 : 16). When we love GOD – for GOD had love us first – we will do everything to please HIS heart, nothing can stop us loving GOD.

So does faith and hope, when we have faith in Jesus we will do what HE said no matter what, even when what HE tolds us to do sometimes doesn’t make sense at all, but we had faith that Jesus would never plan something bad in our life (jeremiah 29 : 11). Hope is something we expect to get when we do something, hope will keep us doing things even if we don’t see the result yet.

2. Gratefull for GOD’s grace

1 Thessalonians 5 : 18
“In everything be thankful, because this is God's will in Christ Jesus for you.”

GOD always love us no matter what, HE gave us life, air to breathe, health, food, friend, every good things in our live. Be thankful for HIS love and what He gave to us. Imagine if GOD doesn’t give us air to breathe anymore, we would have died. Our life should be a proof that we are thankful to GOD (by doing good things according to GOD’s will). That way we will stay focus doing what the Holy Bible commanded us to do, for GOD too stay focus giving us everything we need to stay alive.

3. You’re not alone

1 Peter 5 : 9
“Resist him and be firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.”

Loneliness can kill even the most motivated person, but knowing that we’re not alone in doing what Jesus want in our life makes us strong to bear the tide of this world. Even more, together we can learn and do a lot more than doing things alone, 1 horse can pull 2500 pounds but 2 horse can pull 13500 pounds.

Hebrews 10 : 24 – 25
“And let us continue to consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day coming nearer.”

Together we are strong because we ecourage and help each other to be strong in Christ. We always have someone to remind us how GOD’s love us, to help us in hard time, to pray for us.

Why GOD matters

This is the book I always wanted to read, when I'm alone, thinking about GOD influence in my life, sometimes I cannot feels HIM. This book helps to cover those anxiety about GOD by describing how we can really feels GOD in our daily live.

The reason Christian live can be boring and useless for me it's because of lack of intimate relationship with GOD, without really connecting with HIM what I do seems to be useless, nonsense. But when we see GOD in our daily live, everything we do does matters.

GOD does matters, without HIM I don't want to live anymore.

Facebook And The Bible

Facebook is a social-network website that enable many people to connect to millions of people around the globe. With just an internet connection everyone can meet many new friends, get connected to old friends and acquintances, share their feelings, comment on others post, search people with the same hobby / college / place, play games, etc. Facebook became so popular by it's many uses and many feature it provide.

While facebook serve many purpose, it depends on us what we use facebook for. Every things is like a two side of a coin, it can have a positive effect and negative effect, we could use it for a good purpose or an evil one. So what are those positive and negative side of facebook according to the Holy Bible?

Positive Aspect of Facebook

Matthew 28 : 18 – 20
“Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, as you go, disciple all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age."

Jesus commanded us to tell all the nations about HIM and teaching them to obey HIS word. Our love to Jesus urge us to tell others all we know about HIM and HIS love, while we can use the traditional method to do this, facebook seems to be a great way for us to share HIS love to many people around the world. We could post our thought about Jesus in facebook and let other to comment about it and if they are interested we can tell more about Jesus to them. If we see someone post about his/her problem, we could give advice according to what the Holy Bible say. People love positive encouragement, and if it comes from the Holy Bible, they will have interest in studying it further.

Hebrews 3 : 13
“Instead, continue to encourage one another every day, as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”

Everyday we struggle to defends ourself from the evil and sin, for satan always wait for the opportunity to devour us (1 peter 5 : 8). By encouraging one another, we will be united together to fight satan. Facebook alow us to see others feeling trough what they share in it, therefore we can use it to encourage those in need. We can’t always be around someone for 24/7 physically, but facebook makes it possible to stay connected 24/7 to see what our friends feels at any moment and if for example someone feels desperate and try to commit suicide we will know it first hand and develop a way to help him/her.

Negative Aspect of Facebook

Matthew 10 : 37
"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.”

To be a real disciple of Jesus Christ, to be a real Christian, we must love our GOD above anything else, even more than love for family and close friends. Facebook can easily consume our time and attention for it’s many feature (games, apps, etc) it could be even more popular to us than GOD. People could love facebook more than GOD. Can we spend hours to hear GOD’s word through the Holy Bible? We sure can spend hours using facebook. Do we have time to pray to GOD and worship HIM? We sure always have the time to access facebook.

Act 2 : 46
“They had a single purpose and went to the temple every day. They ate at each other's homes and shared their food with glad and humble hearts.”

Hebrews 10 : 25
“not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day coming nearer.”

Become the disciple of Jesus is the way of life, not just knowledge or theory about Jesus. Jesus teach us to be united together in community with one standard : the Holy Bible. We are encouraged to meet and spent time being together physicaly either in each other’s home or in a church or anywhere else. Facebook can replace this real meeting with a virtual one. Many had more comfort share in facebook than to meet directly in person. This virtual relationship draw away the emotion involved when we meet in person, how can we love each other when there is no emotion involved? The love we had would have been fake, unreal.

Conclusion

As with other technology in our life, they where invented in a positive way of thinking, never had the inventor had the intention to make it destructive to our live. But the outcome of all thecnology depends on who use it and for what, even the Holy Bible can be bad if used in negative way.

Facebook can make our live better or worst, it depends on how we use it and for what purpose. It could be a tool to preach the gospel to all nations, or it could steal our love toward GOD. It could connect us with friends and family, or it could make us away from them by too much playing it’s games and apps. Either way, be wise using facebook for GOD could use it and so does the devil.

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Life trap

A book about how our life is affected greatly by our childhood experience. Do you feel unloved? lonely? afraid of the world out there? unable to love other? then this book is the right answer to your problem. It shows what kind of life trap you have (according to what had happened when we were a kid, abusive behavior from our parents, over protective parents, etc) and offer a solution of how we can change to make a better, happier life.