Basic Biblical Concepts of Human Motivation by David Powlison

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Here are a few:
1. What do you love? Hate?
This “first great commandment” question searches your heart, soul, mind and might. There is
no deeper question to ask of any person at any time. There is no deeper explanation for why
you do what you do.
2. What do you want, desire, crave, lust and wish for? Whose desires do you obey?
This summarizes the internal operations of the “flesh” in the New Testament epistles.
Notice, sometimes another person’s will rules you (peer pressure, people -pleasing, slave-like
behavior). Your heart’s craving in such cases is to get whatever good they promise and
avoid whatever bad they threaten.
3. What do you seek, aim for, pursue? What are your goals and expectations?
5. What do you fear? What do you not want? What do you tend to worry about?
7. What do you think you need? What are your felt needs?
Felt needs are frequently taken as necessities to be acquired, not as deceptive slave-masters.
10. Where do you find refuge, safety, comfort, escape, pleasure, security?
This is the Psalms’ question, digging out your escapism and false trust, false refuge.
11. What or who do you trust?
Trust is one of the major verbs relating you to God--or to false gods and lies.
Who must you please? Whose opinion of you counts? From whom do you desire approval
and fear rejection? Whose value system do you measure yourself against? In whose eyes
are you living? When you lose God, you enter a jungle of distortion. You tend to live before
your own eyes or before the eyes of others--or both.
13. Who must you please? Whose opinion of you counts? From whom do you desire approval
and fear rejection? Whose value system do you measure yourself against? In whose eyes
are you living? When you lose God, you enter a jungle of distortion. You tend to live before
your own eyes or before the eyes of others--or both.