Passion.

PASSION is defined as any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate, BUT interestingly enough is later defined as the sufferings of Christ on the cross or His sufferings subsequent to the Last Supper. The narrative of Christ's sufferings as recorded in the Gospels. Humbling right? Or maybe thats just me. You see at the moment, this blog is stream of consciousness because I am overwhelmed with passion. The idea of passion simply that MY Jesus would suffer for me is incomprehensible. To even begin to fathom or try and establish this idea in my brain blows me away and renders me speechless. I feel like this is something that we all know but so many times seem to forget. We loose the passion and for get the definition of passion AKA the narrative of Christ's sufferings. The story of Jesus’ life and His sufferings are the definition of passion. Wow, try and get a load of that. 

Then of course my mind wanders to those awesome people in the bible. They were passionate about Jesus and He hadn’t even died for them yet. Ah its crazy. Abraham comes quickly to mind as I think of how he was so readily about to sacrifice his only because he was passionate about God and kept His promises to God. He had passion. Then I think about Cain and Able and how even then Abel was passionate about God because he brought God the BEST that he had. Noah comes quickly to mind as his passion is evident in the face of adversity and when he was constantly mocked by those around him. Their daunting remarks were trivial to the passion that he had for God. Then I think about the people who marched around the walls of Jericho and how their passion and their faith in God was so evident and made such an impact. 

Then, I think about me. Where is my passion? Is my faith so radical that I am living a life thats passionate for God? Do I ever take passion, Jesus passion for granted? Am I being all that I am called to be? Would I hear well done, good and faithful servant? Is my passionate for Jesus so evident? The answers to the questions are not only humbling but also so challenging to me. I wonder what life would be like if we lived with a passion. If our lives cried tears of passion. I wonder how things would be if that passion and that love was shared with everyone we encountered. 

ps. This was my first blog ever in my life ahhh