The number streats...the harvest...dear God, let me see it for its potential.

Most often our actions are driven by one of two basic motives, though there are others like hate and envy and lust. For Christians it is mostly love or fear. We are supposed to be the people who act wholly out of love through the Holy Spirit, but for some reason we often find ourselves (or at least I do) struggling with fear, though fear runs contrary to faith. I am often faced with a decision. God will mention for me to do this or that, or talk to this person or that person. Immediately a battle begins in my heart and mind and I think about all the possibilities. Do I listen to love, which says this person needs God's love and wholeness, or do I listen to fear, which mentions the possibility of rejection. If I chose the first response, then I am reacting in love and faith in response to the Holy Spirit, but if I chose the second, I act in response to fear and I deny the Holy Spirit. Therefore, I charge myself, and the Christian community to pay attention to our motives. Do we act in faith and love? Or do we act with a motive contrary to faith? Further we should consider where we are on our journey in light of scripture:

This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so
that we're free of worry on Judgment Day - our standing in the world is
identical with Christ's. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed
love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life - fear of death,
fear of judgment - is one not yet fully formed in love.

(Read First John 4 for the whole context).