“At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures.”
Titus 3:3
Each day, we are moved by one thing or another to get up each day and be in pursuit. We are all after something, chasing after something, longing for something, reaching for something.
For some, it’s a good job, a good marriage, a great project, a love for school, an exciting career, or even motherhood.
Friend, what moves you?
What gets you riled up? what lights up the fire under your feet to get moving an keep moving towards it?
If it is not a passion to pursue God’s purpose, I’m afraid you and I have a lot of repentance to do. A change is coming and it is nearer than we think.
If you are not moved by a passion for your Father’s business, that which HE purposed you for, then what are you passionate about? What have you been chasing relentlessly after and can’t stop?
I received a great word recently that proclaimed the necessity to put passion in its place.
During the sermon, the preacher emphasized greatly on the dangers of having the right passion in the wrong place. I wonder today about the many wrong places that you and I have attempted to harbor our passion.
I lift my hands in humble adoration to God for giving me a burning passion to serve HIM with my life!
I am here to remind you that there is a limitation to the things of this world. So anything outside the word of God that currently serves as a passion, moving you aimlessly without purpose, will eventually die.
Or do you not remember that ONLY the WORD of God shall never die?
So why then is your passion without purpose? How then can your passion live forever if it is harbored on sinking sand? How will the fire burning inside of you for that thing, withstand its power if it is not invested in the all-powerful word of God?!!!
Will a flame ignited by the things of this world not perish in due time?
It is God who lives forever. It is the word of God that lives forever as it is written in Genesis,
FOR IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD.
If you are more passionate about adding fame that faith to your name, or about profit than purpose, the placement of your passion is why you are enduring the trials that you are currently facing in the season of revival.
It is my prayer for you and I, that our heavenly Father grant us a heart of repentance today. May we be enabled by the Spirit of God to change our minds about the passion of our hearts. May me surrender our passion today and seek God for re-direction, and may we be renewed with the right Spirit today to passionately heed the call to God’s glory in Jesus name. Amen.