What is a man's drive? What leads us to do what we do? There are seven billion people on Earth doing seven billion different things. There are seven billion minds moving around doing what seems appropriate to them a the time. We all are driven to live life in whatever way we do. What is our drive and what determines that drive?
What drives one person to give their life to helping the poor and another to taking a life for the profit of something such as a car? Why does one person start a major corporation and another live on the streets? What makes one man give his life to God and another to kill Christians?
Is there a common drive for every person or are people's reasons as diverse as their characters? Are we all created with some imprinted purpose that cannot be deviated from? Or can we deny our callings?
What is my drive? Maybe if I could understand what drives me, I could begin understanding what drives others and if there is a common denominator.
What drives you? Think about it . . . hard. Give an honest and thoughtful answer, not necessarily the first thing that comes to your head.
Joshua
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If I had to communicate what drives us ALL in one word or less, I would say, "Discontent".
If I had to communicate it in one sentence or less, I would say, "There is an absence of wholeness in every human being; a deep, incomprehensible inner longing for something more."
I have seen many definitions of Core Human Needs, some "definitive", some not. I have my own list of Five Core Human Desires:
1. The desire to be loved (wanted, needed, respected, desired)
2. The desire for power (to be safe, to control our destiny, to make a difference)
3. The desire to live forever (youth is coveted only be the aged)
4. The desire to be happy (AKA "have my way")
5. The desire to possess the object of our fulfillment (if money makes me happy, then I desire money)
The truth of the matter is, when we sin (and we ALL have), then we are separated from the only One who can truly SATISFY us - God our Creator.
In response to your self-question, "What drives me?", my statement is, "Desire to be whole drives us all!"
And whether we recognize it or not, that desire is a hunger for God. As His creations, we cannot ever truly be satisfied until we are re-united with the One who created us.
You know what drives ME? I want to be filled with Jesus. I read His Word to find Him. I pray to spend time with Him. I develop relationships with others to fellowship with Him. I live because of Him and I die for Him. I hope you can too!
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