Why do you do the things you do? Why do you react to some people one way and others in another? What causes me to want to go to a church that fills me with joy or even go to church in the first place? What inner voice drives me to learn and share that learning? Why do I write or even write about the subjects I do? For that matter, why do I keep asking questions like these? Others seem to ignore the why and are more concerned about the what.
To this end, I have researched and studied and digested numerous sources all the way from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to Herzberg’s two-factor theory. I have self-analyzed myself to a point of frustration.
In the next couple of weeks, I plan to address what makes me, and for that matter, you and everyone else, what seems to motivate our actions. Further, I will include the direct relationship to each of our motivations to God and how we choose to serve Him.
Prior to addressing the nine motives or desires, I have set specific criteria to each. First criteria for each motive or desire is that it is amoral. That is there is no cause for judgment in having one of these motives or desires. The desires of the body are morally neutral. Second is that each of these desires or motives can and often lead to moral decisions. The why will turn to what. Thirdly, our moral decisions based on these desires can be good, holy, and Godly. Conversely, our moral decisions can be bad, sinful and ungodly. Lastly, as humans, we all have these motives or desires to one degree or other. To ignore any of them is to ignore what God has put in us and how God made us.
So this is where I am going:
- Acceptance
- Curiosity
- Consumption
- Family
- Honor
- Idealism
- Independence
- Order
- Love
*strapping in*