Orange Moon Tuesday, March 24, 2026 "Why?"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe

"Why?" 

    What we do matters much.  Why we do it matters more.

    "And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity (love), it profiteth me nothing" (I Corinthians 13:3).

    The challenge of this truth - and the blessing - involves the fact that we cannot independently form and maintain our proper motivations.  Much influences the reasons for why we do what we do.  This is especially true regarding the will of God, the greatest challenge of our existence.  The path to which He calls us requires His presence, involvement, and working in our hearts to ensure that our "Why?" accompanies our "What?"  Scripture does call us to purify our heart and souls (James 4:8; I Peter 1:22).  The means by which we accomplish this, however, requires faith in our Heavenly Father's working:

   "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.  And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure" (I John 3:2-3).

   Hope in God's progressive process to conform us to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ maintains our assurance regarding both our "What?" and our "Why?"  

    "Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6).

   The Holy Spirit moves within believers to motivate and enable the sincerity that must accompany our actions. God alone sees into the innermost depths of our being to determine our "Why?"  Therein, He alone can accomplish the purification of our reasons and motivations.  As the Apostle John declares, we cooperate by our hope in the Lord's working, purifying ourselves as by faith we "work out" that which He "works in" (Philippians 2:13).  "Search me, o God, and know my heart" requested the Psalmist in one of the wisest prayers ever uttered (Psalm 139:23).  We do well to echo David, frequently seeking our Father's examination not only of what we do, but of why we do it.

"Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins (mind) and my heart."

(Psalm 26:2)

Weekly Memory Verse 

   He that is entered into His rest, he hath ceased from His own works, as God did from His.

 (Hebrews 4:10)

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