MOTIVATION TO LIVE BY

WHEN LIFE BECOMES A BURDEN WE OFTEN RETREAT TO ISOLATION OR SINFUL WAYS OF COPING ..... IT IS NOT OUR HUMANLY DESIRE TO SEEK AFTER GOD ..... WE SEE IT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE WHICH REMINDS US OF HOW INCAPABLE WE ARE AT REAL LOVE , " We love because HE loved us first. " 1JOHN 4:19 ..... IT IS EASIER FOR US TO THROW IN THE TOWEL AND SUCCUMB TO THE EVIL ONES TEMPTATIONS ..... THEY DANGLE BEFORE OUR EYES LIKE SHIMMERING JEWELS ..... THE APOSTLE PAUL REMINDS US WHEN HE SAYS, " I know that nothing good lives in me, that is,
in my sinful nature . For I have the desire to do what is good, but cannot carry it out . For what I do is not the good I want to do ; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing . Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it , but it is sin living in me that does it . " ROMANS 7:18-20 ..... SO WE FIND OURSELVES STRUGGLING AND IN A QUANDARY OVER THE CHOICES IN LIFE THAT WE SEE ARE BEFITTING FOR US AND DECISIONS THAT COULD PRODUCE GOOD FRUIT..... THEN SUDDENLY WE BECOME FEARFUL AND CONFUSED WONDERING IF OUR LIVES WILL EVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING GOOD FOR GOD ..... AND THEN WE MAY OR MAY NOT SEE HOPE ..... BECAUSE TRUE HOPE CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN GODS WORD ..... PARTICULARLY THE SCRIPTURE THAT TELLS US , " For GOD did not give us a spirit of fear ; but of power, and of love and a of sound mind. " 2TIMOTHY1:7 ..... SUCH MOTIVATION FOR US TO LIVE BY ................................................................SUMMER