January 30th, 2024
During my sabbatical, I found myself asking the question, what does it mean to be passionate about Jesus? So often, I find myself saying that I'm an emotional guy, and I'm eager for Christ. I also hear others say the same thing, but do our lives really show that we are what we claim?
The word passionate means having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling for someone or something. As I thought about this definition, so many thoughts raced through my head. Compelled by, ruled by intense emotion.
Does Jesus Christ drive us? That would mean our lives look very different than most people. Our actions look increasingly like His; compassion, kindness, truth, love, faithfulness, and patience all start to look more like his because an intense and robust emotion compels us to be like him. It is not just what we say, but it is who we are. Our words come from our lives.
Now, I’m not saying we are perfect or sinless, but we are changing, growing, and different people than we were a day ago, a week ago, a year ago.
We see this in the great women and men in the Bible; they all had their shortcomings, and they all sinned, but we can see how they also all started to change. As they sought God, their lives `became more and more submitted to the things of Christ.
It was no longer just words they spoke about being passionate; they lived passionately with a mission to see others experience life for Christ, for when that happens, you can not help but be intense in word and action.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Blessings
Don
The word passionate means having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling for someone or something. As I thought about this definition, so many thoughts raced through my head. Compelled by, ruled by intense emotion.
Does Jesus Christ drive us? That would mean our lives look very different than most people. Our actions look increasingly like His; compassion, kindness, truth, love, faithfulness, and patience all start to look more like his because an intense and robust emotion compels us to be like him. It is not just what we say, but it is who we are. Our words come from our lives.
Now, I’m not saying we are perfect or sinless, but we are changing, growing, and different people than we were a day ago, a week ago, a year ago.
We see this in the great women and men in the Bible; they all had their shortcomings, and they all sinned, but we can see how they also all started to change. As they sought God, their lives `became more and more submitted to the things of Christ.
It was no longer just words they spoke about being passionate; they lived passionately with a mission to see others experience life for Christ, for when that happens, you can not help but be intense in word and action.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Blessings
Don
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