What's your passion?

Passion is a word that has frequently been used to indicate something more than romantic endeavors. This other kind of passion has more to do with obsession, fervor, or zeal. We can be passionate about many things in life: family, friends, or the taste of a perfectly smoked rack of ribs. Passion can be positive or negative. But there is one defining factor about passion, whether for people or things: it’s consuming.

The Bible states, in John 2:17, that Jesus’ passion for his Father’s House consumed him. In this text, Jesus is enraged that the Temple had been turned into a “den of thieves.” In spite of the fact that the Temple was misused by the greedy, led by leaders who were, “white washed tombs full of dead men’s bones,” Jesus never lost his passion. He looked beyond what was wrong with the system and saw what was right with it. He didn’t allow the abuses, power mongering, and political games that were common practice within the religious system to set aside God’s purpose for his Temple. Jesus was passionate.

What about you? What are you passionate about? What consumes your thoughts, emotions, and dreams? What is the thing that fills you up like nothing else?

Are you spending a significant amount of time doing what you are most passionate about? If not, why not? What is one thing you can do to spend more time in your area of passion?