Wasted Passions

Maybe your passion is boats, or music, or taking road trips or something else. Your passion could be just about anything or anyone.

The point of all this is that whatever your passion is, you need to make sure that you are getting what you paid for, and that the reward you are getting is worth price you are paying.

I have seen people spend their life, their time, their money and their energy on things that just don’t matter in the end. Really now, what difference will it make in your life one day after the national championships are over? What difference will it make in your life if Jeff Gordon wins the race? Will that put anything in your pocket? Sure, you will gain a moment of euphoria, a few minutes of entertainment, but then it’s back to the realities of life. What real difference does it make in the end?

Isaiah 55:2, "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness."

I know that people have a need for entertainment. I don’t think that there is a sin in liking any of the things that I have talked about. But what does concern me greatly is when I see people whose entire lives are focused on things that won’t benefit them eternally.

This life is short, but eternity is forever. We focus on what gives pleasure and satisfies the flesh and we forget the things of God that determine our eternal destiny.

The Word of God teaches us that we should be passionate about the same things that Jesus is passionate about. What is Jesus passionate about?

He was passionate about disciplining himself and being faithful to his purpose. He knew the Word. He is the Word. He used that word against the devil when Satan tried to draw him off center and get his focus on the things of the world during those days of temptation in the wilderness.

He was passionate about teaching and training his disciples. He taught them and lived an example before them whether it was one or two at a time, or the whole group. Wherever he went Jesus was teaching.

Jesus was passionate about seeking and saving the lost, and then showing them how to live godly in this sinful world.

The Bible says in Luke 19:10, "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." There we can see the singular most important passion of Jesus. He loved the world so much that he came to give himself for us that we could be saved.

Jesus was the most passionate man that ever lived. He began his life with but one goal in mind and never took his eyes off the prize. His goal was to go to the cross to the perfect sacrifice for the sins of man and his prize would be the souls of those who choose to believe in Him.

Jesus death on the cross is often referred to as his “Passion”. As he hung there, between two thieve, with his life’s blood flowing from the wounds in his body, growing weaker with each passing moment, giving his life freely, he had but one thought on his mind – “YOUR eternal soul”! Jesus was passionate about you!