Gordon MacDonald identifies for us several marks of a driven person. One, a driven person is gratified only by accomplishments. He sees life only in terms of results. Two, a driven person lives in a constant state of restlessness looking for more greater results. Three, a driven person does not stop to ask if his inner person is keeping pace with all their compulsive busyness. So the gap between his inner person and his external activities just keeps on widening. The inevitable result: is a breakdown in integrity; they become increasingly deceitful. Four, driven people tend to have little regard for people. They are so consumed by their goals and objectives they don't really take notice of people around them unless they can use them to their own ends. Driven people get things done but they destroy people in the process. Five, driven people tend to be highly competitive; they feel they must win. Six, driven people are usually abnormally busy.

Many of us are driven people. We struggle in our profession, in our relationships, and even in the ministry. We're constantly tired and fragmentized. Michael Yaconelli editor of The Wittenburg Door openly speaks of his drivenness. He said “I knew what it meant to believe in Jesus. I did not know what it meant to be with Jesus. I found it easy to do the work of God but I had no idea how to let God work in me"

But all our manipulative ways to get our act together have gotton us nowhere. We're in the same fix, grappling with the same problems, worrying the same worries and despairing over the same despairing situations.

There is really a fundamental reason why we become driven people. It has to do with our basic distrust of God. In the issues of our lives which matter greatly to us, we don't really believe that God is able take care of us or is interested in us. How long must it take before we will learn this lesson that we don't need to strive; that we only need to stand and see the deliverance of the Lord.

Ultimately it is not praying, or reading the Scriptures or listening to sermons. Ultimately it is coming to Jesus and submitting to Him and saying: "Lord I am here. Weak as I am, helpless as I am, I rest in the assurance that what You have promised me you will do for me."

Repeatedly, the Word of God tells us that it is only those who wait on him, who were delivered; it is only those who realise they have no resources of their own whom the Lord redeemed. He tells us, "Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed for I am your GOD. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. I THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL HOLD YOUR RIGHT HAND.” Isaiah 41:10,13.