There is a story of a little girl who loved playing
in her mom’s jewelry and one day she decided, without her mother’s permission,
to wear one of her moms beautiful necklaces outside to play to impress her
friends. After a while of playing
outside, before returning home, the girl noticed that her mother’s beautiful
necklace was no longer around her neck.
In a panic, she searched and searched all over where she had been
playing but could not find it. After a
long while of searching the girl eventually hung her head and returned home and
told her mother.
And upon hearing the news the mother immediately
asked her daughter one question. She
said, “Where were you playing?” The girl answered, “At the park.” And after hearing that vital piece of
information the mother immediately left and was back with the necklace in less
than fifteen minutes.
When she got home, her daughter was shocked that her
mom found the necklace so quickly. She
said, “Mom I can’t believe you found it, I looked all over for it. How did you find it so quickly?” The mom said, “The reason I found it quicker
than you is because we were not looking for the same thing. You were looking for a necklace you play with
in mommy’s closet, and I was looking for a $500 necklace that your father gave
me on our 10th Wedding Anniversary.”
Here’s the point of this story...THE RIGHT MOTIVATION MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
IN THE WORLD. That’s true when it comes
to finding expensive piece of jewelry with sentimental value that’s been lost
on a playground and it’s true when it comes to your spiritual life. And one thing that we find throughout the
Scriptures is that we as believers have great reason for following hard after
God and walking worthy for Him. In
Ephesians 1:3-14, Paul gives us three reasons.
He tells us that we as believers should walk worthy
for God because, THE FATHER HAS SELECTED US (vv. 4-6), THE SON HAS SACRIFICED
FOR US (vv. 7-12) and because THE SPIRIT HAS SEALED US (vv. 13-14).
For more on our motivation for walking worthy click
HERE and listen to “BE MOTIVATED TO WALK WORTHY.”
