DAY 3: What Drives Your Life!

Today's topic is What Drives Your Life!! Well, I truly believe everyone's life is driven by something. What is exactly the meaning of drive?? Most dictionaries define the verb drive as "to guide, to control, or to direct." It doesn't matter whether you are driving, controlling,and directing it at that moment. What is the driving force in your life??
Right now you may be driven by a problem, a pressure, or a deadline. You may be driven by a painful memory, a haunting fear, or an unconscious belief. There're hundreds of circumstances, emotions or even values that can drive your life. Here are five of the most common ones:
Many people are driven by guilt. They spend their entire lives 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 success. As what the Bible says, "You will be a restless wanderer on the Earth." That describes most people in this generation which is wandering through life without a purpose. We are just products of our past, but we don't have to be a prisoners of it. God's purpose is not limited by our past. God specializes in giving people a fresh start. The Bible says, "What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven! What relief for those who have confessed their sins and God cleared their record."
Many people are driven by resentment and anger. They hold on to hurts and never get over them. Instead of releasing their pain through forgiveness, they rehearse it over and over again in their minds. Some resentment-driven people even clam up and internalize their anger, while others blow up and explode it onto others. Both responses are actually unhealthy and also unhelpful. Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. LISTEN CAREFULLY: 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. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.The Bible says, "To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do."
Many people are driven by fear. Their fears may be a result of a traumatic experience, unrealistic expectations, growing up in a high-control home, or even genetic predisposition. Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against with the weapons of faith and love.
Many people are driven by materialism. Their desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of their lives. This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make you more happy, important and secure, but three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and finally newer, bigger, better versions. It's also a myth that if I get more, I will be more important. Self-worth and net morth are not the same. Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not the things. Well, the most common myth about money is that having more will make that particular person more secure. It Will Never Happen!! Wealth can be lost instantly through a variety of uncontrollable factors. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you is your relationship with God!!
Many people are driven by the need for approval. They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or children or teachers or buddies to control their lives. Many adults are still trying to earn the approval of unpleasing parents. Others are driven by peer pressure, always worries by what others might think. Unfortunately, those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.I do not know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life. Jesus said,"No one can serve two masters."