Urgency in Today: Passion for what matters

It is so very easy to be passionate about the wrong things in our culture.  I am not sure it is totally an American thing or just a thing in the World today.  We seem to have no problem being passionate in our complaining.  Passionate in our anger of how the world has wronged us or our friends or our family today.  What has happened to passionate followers of Christ?  Since when are we to be more passionate about who cut us off on the freeway, which waitress was rude to us, how someone wouldn't honor a sale in a store, how our child has been mistreated by their teacher or dare i say how our government has failed us yet again, than our passion for Christ, the things He has called us to, and the freedom He alone has given us.  We seem to be spending all our energy on the wrong things.  Fellow believers... God has indwelled in our hearts for more than this.  He has placed His Living Water within us for more than our frustrations.  Yes, there is a time and place for righteous anger, but complaining is not what we are to do with that righteous anger.  


ACTION is what the Lord has made us for. Action that comes out of the power and glory of God that is present within us.  Action that comes flowing out of us like a river of healing waters.  It is what He promises to refuel us for, it is what He actively works in us for, it is what His word, His heart and His example are all about.

 SO...flee from these things, you man [or woman] of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. 


Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called...


Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God who richly supplies us with ALL things to enjoy.  


Instruct them to do good, be rich in good works, to be generous, and ready to share, storing up for themselves the treasure of the good foundation for the future, so they may take hold of that which is LIFE indeed!!


Guard what has been entrusted to you avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called "knowledge" -- which some have professed and thus gone astray in the faith.


Grace be with you.  Timothy 6:11-21


And i repeat... 


Grace be with you!