What is your Motivation

In a garden somewhere in Europe, next to a beautiful flower bed, there was a sign, written in three languages:

In German: Picking flowers is prohibited.

In English: Please do not pick the flowers.

In French: Those who love flowers will not pick them.

What is your motivation for doing God's will, obeying God's commands?

Fear of authority?

Sense of society's expectations?

Or love?

--Marilyn Allen, Plymouth Presbyterain Church, St. Helens, Oregon