In essence, it may not look like it from the outside, and sometimes it may not even feel like it, but when something fails to serve its ultimate purpose, its reason for existence, the reality is, it’s failing – period!
“I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,” Philippians 3:8-9.
Your reason for doing things needs to come from an undivided heart to know the Lord Jesus, not from rewards or punishment or any other pressure. Remain undivided, and move in life as He leads.