Compulsion

What is it that drives us? What is it that makes us get out of bed in the morning, get dressed, go out to work? What makes us do it day after day?

I guess many people would answer that money drives them, the new car or the new TV or to provide for their kids, or maybe if we're honest its to keep up with the neighbours. But what happens when you retire? What drives you then? Is it getting your golf handicap into single figures? Or taking up a new hobby?

What is it that gives us purpose in life? Paul as he writes to the Corinthian Church, to a church struggling with living out the scandal of the gospel in an image conscious world, Paul writes to give them a purpose as he explains his purpose for living.

"For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died." Why get out of bed in the morning? Because Christ has died for me and in doing so he takes on my sin, reconciles me to God and makes me a new creation. Why go to work? Because Christ died for me and I am a new creation who lives for him. I am not a doctor who happens to be a Christian I am a Christian living for Christ as a doctor, or student, or mum.

Christ love is to be my purpose in everything I do, it is to be what drives me, it is to be what compels me if I am convinced that one died for all.