More Motivation

What motivates you in your life?
Companies have made lots of money producing those posters which show Olympic athletes, mountain ranges, and soaring birds to motivate people to excellence. Likewise, bumper stickers have a whole enterprise built around motivation. (“Make it happen!” one announced to me at a stoplight last week. I also saw one, “My ferret can eat your honor student” though I’m not exactly sure what that is supposed to motivate.)
But deeper than that, what motivates you in your life to do or be anything significant? Jesus came to Jericho one day and encounters Bartimaeus, “a blind beggar” who wants Jesus to heal him. It may seem obvious what Bartimaeus wanted and what motivated him to seek out Jesus, but the more I read our text for this Sunday--Mark 10:46-52--the less obvious the real motivation becomes.
We’re tying motivation to stewardship this year—what motivates us to give. Motivation, however, goes to many places in our life, including stewardship. In fact, stewardship in church is about money to be sure, but it also goes to many different places in our lives.
What motivates you in your life?