While the sense of long-term purpose and mission is beneficial and necessary, it is not sufficient. For the human mind, details are most effectively metered in manageable units. Balance between pattern perception and analytic thinking achieves optimum productivity. Analytic aspects must operate directly on the environment--hence the need for constant interplay and feedback. Motivation derives from both long-term pattern recognition and short-term behavioral reinforcement. In seeking to encourage and motivate man, God thus relies on immediacy and vision as exemplified in Christ Jesus.
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