Everyone’s life is driven by something. If you take a look in a dictionary about the meaning of the verb “drive”, it says that is “to guide, to control, or to direct”.Whether you are driving a car, a nail, or a agold ball, you are guiding, controlling, and directing it at the moment. What is the driving force in your life? Friends, economical compromises? Building your new house, or maybe Money?.
Perhaps, you may be driven by a problema, a pressure, or a dealine. You may be driven by a painful memory, a haunting fear, or an unconscious belief. There are hundreds of circumstances, values, and emotions that can drive your life. Let me give you some of them :
1. Many people are driven by guilt.
They spend their entire lifes running from regrets and hiding their shame. Guilt –driven people are manipulated by memories. They allow their past to control their future. They often unconsciously punish themselves by sabotaging their own success. When Cain sinned, his guilt disconnected him from God’s and God said, “You will be a restless wanderer on the earth”,Genesis 4:12. This describes that most people today-wandering through life without a purpose. We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisioners of it. God’s purpose is not limited!. He specializes in giving people a fresh start. “What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven..What relief for those who have confessed their sins and God has cleared their record.”Psalm 32:1.
- Many people are driven by resentment and anger .
They hold on to hurts and never over them. Instead of releasing their pain throught forgiveness,they rehearse it over and over in their minds. Some resentment-driven people “clam up” and internalize their anger, while others “blow up” and explode it onto others. Both responses are unhealthy and unhelpful. Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offerender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain perpetuating the past.
Listen: Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.Your past is past!!!. Nothing will change it.You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. “To worry yourself do death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do” Job 5:2
They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or children or teachers or friends to control their lives. Many adults are still trying to earn the approval of unpleasable parents. Other are driven by peer pressure, always worried by what others might think. Unfortunately, those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God’s purposes for your life. Jesus said “No one can serve two masters”- Nothing matters more than knowing God’s purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them-not success, wealth, fame, or prelausre. Without a purpose, liefe is trivial, petty, and pointless.
There is a great benefit of living a purpose-driven life: Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. We were made to have meaning. When life has meaning,you can bear almost anything, without it, nothing is bearable.
I kindly invite you to come to Jesus Christ!. To tell him that you need to have a purpose. Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. God says: “I know what I am planning for you…I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future”Jeremiah 29:11
Your friend and sister in faith,
Hellen G. Peralta