Remember Your Why

You ever noticed when someone is asked about their job they give a natural laundry list of “whats?” Name of place, position, length of tenure, etc. 

In 2009 Simon Sinek wrote Start With Why. He suggest that our what can get in the way of our why. That our what is only what we do, our why is why we do what we do. 

Maybe today you encountered a what that blocked your why from your frontal lobe. The whats tend to take our focus off our why and steal the joy from it. They can either become the totality of what we do or can be a persistent frustration that consumes our work. 

Your what may have become a persistent problem that seems unsolvable. It may be a person who is unpleasable. It may be a situation that has become almost unbearable. It might be a personal fault that clouds your mind with guilt. It could be family or finances, sin or stress, weakness or weariness. Regardless, the what of your work, may have caused you to forget the why of your work.

If you are tempted to cash it all in, may I ask you to push rewind and remember your why?

Remember the love of the Lord, the trust in His Word, the passion for doing His work, the desire to reach lost people with the only thing that would save them, the joy of seeing eyes opened to God’s Message, the care you have for His People, the thrill of preaching, the desire to be of use, the delight in serving Him as you serve others. Remember your why. Rest in it. Rejoice in it. And let the why quell the what.