Space shuttles are propelled out of the earth’s atmosphere by a solid fuel mixture producing millions of pounds of thrust.

Indianapolis race cars travel at speeds averaging more than 200 mph, powered by a highly volatile fuel mixture.

What fuels us as followers of Jesus Christ? What gives us the power to love as He loved? Only the indwelling Holy Spirit can motivate us to Christlike deeds of compassion, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice.

The apostle John wrote, “If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us His Spirit” (1 Jn. 4:12-13).

A mother asked her young son to clean her shoes. He worked on them diligently until they were spotless and shiny. To show her appreciation, his mother gave him a dollar. When she went to put the shoes on, she found something wadded up in the toe of one of them. It was her dollar wrapped in a note that read: “Here’s yoer dallar, Mom. I done it for luv.”

Fueled by the Holy Spirit, we too can serve others, motivated by Christ’s love.

  — David C. Egner