ON Fire

What are your passions? What are those things that drive you to become fanatic? What passions in your life are so important that you're excited every time it's brought up?

More importantly, are you that passionate about JESUS?

Sometimes we lose sight of our passion for Him in light of the other things that take up all our time. Sports. Music. Family. Significant others. But it's always good for us to be reminded WHY we are called to be passionate for Him.

In Philippians 3, Paul reminds us what category all our worldly passions fall under: rubbish.  Paul calls us to consider EVERYTHING a loss compared to knowing Jesus. That in comparison to a relationship with Jesus Christ, nothing else matters. It's all trash. It means nothing. And nothing is as valuable as knowing Jesus.

Furthermore, Paul calls us to pursue the PRIZE God has called us to chase. To passionately pursue the prize of becoming like Jesus. To passionately pursue the prize of a relationship with Him. To passionately pursue the free gift of salvation & eternal life that only Jesus can give through faith in Him.

Jeremiah describes his passion for the Lord like "fire" in his "heart." He tells us his passion for the Lord is like "a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in - indeed, I cannot." A passion so deep that he can't even contain it! He can't control it! It's consuming him.

Do you have that passion? A passion so deep it's in your bones? A passion so alive you just can't hold it in?

Are you living with passion? Are you living ON fire for Jesus? Don't hold it in.

JV