"What is my passion?" (Part 2)

This question is really bugging me. I know what my passion is. But, I’m beginning to think I need to be more passionate about it. I have become complacent to an extent, letting others carry the load when I could be offering more of myself, my heart. I am standing on the edge of apathy and it’s not a pretty place.

How did I get here? How did I let the fire turn into a smolder and the passion into a dream? God, help me. I need you to fan the flames and turn my heart to you with an even greater passion than I have ever known.

Psalm 139:23-24 - Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, and see if any wicked way is in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.”

Psalms 80:3 – “Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved!”

Rev 2:2-5 – “I know your works and your labor and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And you tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars. And you have borne, and have patience, and for My name's sake you have labored and have not fainted. But I have against you that you left your first love. Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent...”
Mat 12:20 - “He will not break a bruised reed, and He will not quench a smoking wick….”

Philippians 1:6 – “…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ….”

I know that God is faithful to his word, that he will complete the good work he has begun in me. I also know that he wants my whole heart. That is what this week of soul searching is all about. It’s a time to just open up to him and ask him to search all of me, know me and, as the Psalm above states, “turn me again” to him as I turn my heart back to him, my first love.

It’s easy to settle for counting our good works and feeling comfortable with our donations of time, money and service. But he wants our hearts. That is a whole new level. It’s about letting him have that part of us that wants to be in control of us. That takes faith and trust in his perfect character, his perfect fatherliness and his perfect love. I have everything to gain and nothing to lose in giving my heart to him.

Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the purposes which I am planning for you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace, and not for evil; to give you posterity and a hope.”

This is the heart of God for us. Why do we fear to surrender to his love?
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