Passion, in our day, is so often used it is worn out. People are so passionate about so many things, that it has become ordinary. The problem is that in the process, we’ve become equally as passionate about ordinary things. We are passionate about everything, from the kind of dish soap we buy to the beverages we drink along with our food.
Just a week or two ago a fellow died, Paul May, we excelled at sales by using passion as his tool to communicate over the TV to sell ordinary things, shammy cloths, oxy clean and the like. There was nothing really spectacular about the products, but he made them sell with his passion and the force of his personality.
Now, as far as sales goes, this is a winning proposition I suppose. But what this does, in the rest of the real world however, is slowly and surely dull our sense of what is worth being passionate about so that sooner or later we become so dulled and desensitized that we are not passionate about anything. We become cynical and closed off about everything. Why should I be emotional about spiritual things? I got emotional about shammy cloths and they let me down? Now that’s surely an extreme, but you get my point!
Another problem is that in such an environment is that we need more and more and bigger and better to get us going or we’re left flat. Without careful thinking and sure and Biblical guidance we can stranded in the place where we thinking that anything less than bigger and better fireworks in the physical, natural realm isn’t “church”. This is both tragic and infuriating.
There is nothing anyone can do, outside of ourselves, really, to correct this. We must do it ourselves. We must reserve this passion for God and for those things for which He has called and commissioned us to have passion for.
Paul Washer says it better than I am able. We are to have a heart filled with passion for God:
Misplaced passion is a horror. But passion for God and for His work can be the greatest gift and a great tool for the work of God!
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