Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Gift of His Passion

Passion: intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction; a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept
PASSION means intense emotion, compelling action. PASSION applies to an emotion that is deeply stirring or ungovernable.

God is a God of passion. We can see His passion in nature as we behold a sunrise on an early spring morning, the colors in a field of wild flowers, the multitude of stars we can see on a clear night.

The most obvious example of God’s passion for us is shown when He gave His only Son to die on the cross for us. Can you imagine His pain? His anguish? The tears He shed? To watch His son die and turn His back on Him so that we might have eternal life?

If Christ is living in us, we have that same passion. Not that God is asking us to give our son so that the world might be saved, but to apply His passion that is in us to everything we do and say.

“How can I do that?” I can hear some of you asking. “How can I apply His passion when I hate my _______?” (You fill in the blank) Suppose you filled in the blank with “job.” The Bible says everything we do, should be done as unto the Lord. When you do your job as unto the Lord, it is easy to have passion for that job…or marriage…or life.

Father God, thank you for the gift of passion. May everything I do and say be filled with Your passion that resides in me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

(c) December 2009

3 comments:

Andrea said...

Great post....we fulfill HIS passion by doing the best we can in our circumstances, focusing on HIM!
Blessings, andrea

quietspirit said...

Edwina:
Good thoughts. We all need to do everything,even the minutest thing, for the Lord.

Edwina said...

Thank you both for stopping by and leaving your comments!

May we all focus on HIM today!!

Blessings,
Edwina

MARANATHA!