Why is it some people are so excited and enthusiastic about what they’re doing and and energized to do well at what they’re doing whereas someone else who may have the same responsibility seems to be sort of lackadasical about the whole idea, no excitement, no enthusiasm. What is the difference? How is it that two people often times sitting on the same pew in the same church building listening to the same message, one can be excited, enthusiastic about the Lord, desirous to know God, applying spiritual truths, the other person seated right

beside them, they’re not excited, not enthusiastic, making no application, never take a note, never carry a Bible to church. They’re just sort of there. What is the difference? The difference is real simple. The difference is in motivation. One person is motivated on his job, the other one is not.

One child is motivated, the other one is not. One believer is motivated, the other is not. Motivation is the drive that is within us. It is that something within us that moves us, that stirs us, that punches our button, that gets us to moving. What does it take to drive you on the inside to energize you to to stir you to incite you on to do the thing that you’ve told God that you’re going to do? Well, in the life of Daniel, some incences happened that give us what I believe are some very specific uh motivations in the area of our commitment. Now, you

and I should say, well, you know, if you love the Lord Jesus Christ, that ought to be motivation enough. Well, that’s true. But it appears that’s not motivational enough. And God doesn’t just use one form of motivation. He uses many forms. And there are different aspects in which you and I look at life. And so we’re motivated by different things.