The "Right Stuff"
Being at a loss for words today, I prayed to God and asked Him to inspire me with something. As I continued my day, the word passion came to my mind, sat down, grabbed a diet Pepsi, put its feet up on my couch and refuses to leave. (Kind of like me at Dar’s!)
I knew how to use the word passion in context, but wanted to be sure that I knew the meaning before I started to babble on about it so I went to one of my favorite sites, Dictionary.com, and got these three meanings:
~*A powerful emotion, such as love.
~*Boundless enthusiasm.
~*The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
I think that if the attitudes of a Christian could be summed up into one word it should be passion. A powerful emotion such as love or faith for the suffering of Jesus, coupled with boundless enthusiasm. Though the dictionary gave them three separate meanings; I think they compliment each other quite well.
I realized that God gave me the word passion for a reason. For the last few weeks it seems as though I have been very melancholy, in fact some day’s I’ve been down right miserable. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me but as I was explaining to one of the ladies in our church that it felt like I was carrying my spiritual life around in a burlap sack tied around my ankle. Still, I couldn’t figure out why I was feeling this way. I have been doing so much for the church lately and surely that would have me in high spirits, wouldn’t it? As I read the meaning on my computer screen I realized that I was getting so caught in what I was doing, I forgot the reasons why. Yes, I was serving the church- how much of my servitude was for God?
Passion, appetite, ardor, aspiration, avidity, craving, desire, drive, eagerness, earnestness, emulation, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, hankering, hope, hunger, initiative, itch, keenness, longing, love, moxie, pretension, push, right stuff, spirit, striving, thirst, vigor, yearning, zeal- whatever you want to call it, how do you stop yourself from losing it?
How do you stop yourself from getting so caught up in the “what” that you forget the “why”?
posted by Steph @ 12:07 PM
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4 Comments:
When I'm feeling stressed and down, I look at what Christ did for me on the cross, and I fall in love with Christ all over again. I can't even imagine walking a mile in His shoes.
When I lost my passion and was considering quitting teaching Sunday School and being the Sunday School Superintendent because I was feeling dragged out and felt like no one was doing "their share" I had closed my eyes to ask for direction.
All I saw was Christ on the cross, with a crown of thorns, nails in his hands and feet; bleeding from the side.
I remembered why! and thought how could I anything less.
SRW
Even the word itself was passionate enough to hang around your couch all day.
All those words describe the dating life. God longs for that passion from us.
God is teaching you some profound truths that many people never learn and that I often struggle with.
It is easy to mix up churchianity with CHRISTianity. The enemy loves getting us "caught up in doing good".
I struggle with this often and always have to come back to what Ephesians refers to as "The Hope of His Calling".
What is the hope of His calling for me? First and foremost it is relationship and communion. The rest is just passing time here.
Bonnie
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