Where is our Passion?

Do you remember when you got saved? That feeling of complete zeal? Feeling almost like a caged Tiger. If only they would open that door...I could save the world. Having no wisdom, just pure excitement. Your eyes being opened for the first time; seeing the world in a whole new light. God saving you by his grace and all you knew what that you wanted others to experience what you just had.



Then after time passes so does some of your zeal. You begin to realize that this Christ you love, the man who saved your life, others seem to want no part of him. So you wise up a bit. Realizing that everyone still can be saved ,but just that not everyone wants to be saved. So with that realization you let it take some of your fire. . .

Today was my first day of college, and while sitting there listening to my music teaching give her lecture I was captivated. Describing Beethoven’s 5th Symphony with such passion. The way the music spoke to her, the way it made her feel. She took me too a place where I no longer just heard the music, but I could almost feel it. Listening to it was almost like you could feel a battle going on within his soul while writing it. Sitting there watching her eyes light up with excitement as she began to share her passion, I began to think. Where is my passion?

When you research the word passion you will find it comes from a Latin word, passio meaning suffering.

Mr. Webster actually defines passion like this:

1. the sufferings of Christ between the night of the last supper and his death.

2. Obsolete: SUFFERING

3. EMOTION: the emotions as distinguished from reason; intense, driving, or over mastering feeling or conviction, an outbreak of anger.

4. Ardent affection: LOVE, a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept.

After reading the true definition of passion I felt convicted. Seeing a music teacher express more passion about her music on a day to day basis than we “Christians” do in a month. Where is our passion? Where is our zeal? The fire that once burned in our bosom to tell the world about this great God.

Christ felt passionate enough about us too give his very life. Can we still say the same?



The end is near…let us again as Christians, as believers in something greater than ourselves, as soldiers, as children of the most high, let us again feel the zeal. Let the fire, once again, consume us. . .