Living for a Greater Passion
Having a greater passion for God’s will than your own is oddly attractive.
“Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.”
1 Peter 4:1-2 NASB2020
What, desire, passion, lust do you want to live your life by?
God gives us good gifts. Things we are to enjoy inside their rightful place in life. However, we use these gifts outside what God intends and they bring destruction into our lives.
Sacrifice and suffering kills the passion for the created order.
Not sacrifice for sacrifice sake. Sacrifice for a clear purpose inside God’s Kingdom.
I’ve felt this. There were lusts and passions for the created order popping up in my life. I was losing the battle to them. God has lit a fire inside of me for a purpose in his Kingdom. I’m willing to sacrifice more. And the lust has subsided.
This way of living is weird to those around you. To a generation who thinks, “if I feel it, I go get it,” this is not normal.
However, don’t give up on those around you. God has given you a ministry for a reason. He wants you to speak life into those who are dead on his behalf.
Because having a passion for a purpose you are willing to sacrifice for is oddly attractive. They wonder why you don’t give into any passion that comes into your heart, but those around you also long for something to give their life over to.
When you’re in college and you get in bed early on Saturday because you have to get up to serve on Sunday, that’s weird.
When you save for a mission trip instead of a spring break trip, that’s weird.
When you are friends with people far from God, but don’t do what they do, that’s weird.
When you have a stronger passion for God’s will than your own, that’s weird.
And beautiful. Beautiful to God, but also beautiful to those who long for their soul to have something more.
Stay strong. God will use you. All of you. Your wins. And your losses. Keep living a life more passionate for his will than for your own.