Make Us Passionate #2

Scripture
Luke 10:25-27:
25Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. "Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?" 26He answered, "What's written in God's Law? How do you interpret it?"
27He said, "That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself."


Josh's thoughts (new student guy)
Passion is ironic. It can be used to destroy, kill, and disrupt. Passion can also be used to motivate, create, and unite. Throughout many books of the Bible, passion is used in a negative sense, in ways such as harboring lust, caring too much about possessions, worldly desires that fade with time and other negative ways that end with time. As Jesus is introduced in the Bible, he begins to shift the power that passion has. What Jesus does in the book of Luke is proclaim that in order to have eternal life, you give all of your passions, all that you are, and all that you can be to God and that you love other people as you love yourself. It’s a shift in passion. Once passions were spoken of in the negative sense and would lead you to a road of destruction and death, Christ turns it around and shows that passion, now, can be used to bring life for eternity and life for others. Christ has a way of doing that with everything. Death to life, an end to eternity, darkness to light.

The question stands: What are you passionate about?

Our Prayer
God, allow us to take a step back and find out what we are passionate about. Let us examine ourselves and find out where that passion is leading us. Help us to realize that if we are not passionate about you and loving others, than we are going to die with our bodies. Help us be passionate for something larger than us.