Encouraging - Challenge

God has wired us so that our bodies, minds, and spirits require challenge, and we flourish especially when we face challenges for a cause greater than ourselves. We experience the flow of the Spirit most deeply when we focus on challenges that enrich the community and when we cease to be preoccupied with our own advancement.

John Ortberg, The Me I want to Be (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI: 2010), 250.