Obsolete motive

In Christ, my motive is pure regardless of what I do or think. My motive in Him is not based on me. It is His will within me,

Gal. 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

Phil. 1:6, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:”

Eph. 1:4, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we be and exist should (Greek “should” is “to exist”) be holy and without blame before him in love:

Who I am in Christ is who I really am. His motive and will is His in me according to the knowledge after godliness, Titus 1:1.

Is my motive based on me? No, thank God through His Son Jesus Christ. The old man’s motive is obsolete. John says God is greater than our heart (motive included I’d say), 1 John 3:20. Who can say He is not greater than that?

My motive now is by grace. That is why Christians are miserable when they use their liberty as an occasion to the flesh. The motive is not pure. The motive is not God’ s love. Their old motive could be empowered by diluted or law-mixed doctrine they are adhering to. Where does this doctrine come from?  I wonder if such doctrine has the potential to create a yoke of bondage according to the spirit of fear? Gal. 5:1, Rom. 8:15. Galatians say God is not mocked and to use our liberty to serve one another in love.