What are you Passionate About?

Okay, the Super Bowl is over. Congrats Packer fans (ooh that is hard to say). But, this is a good lead-in to this week’s question, “What are you passionate about?”

Passion:  powerful, compelling, or strong emotion or feeling towards a person, cause, or object.

We find ourselves passionate about a lot of things. Many are passionate about our sports teams. Whether it be football, baseball, basketball, the Olympics, or World Cup Soccer; it can be professional, college or high school (I’ve even seen some pretty passionate people at junior high games). Just watching the Super Bowl is perfect evidence of people’s passion. A lot of those fans traveled pretty far to watch the game and paid a pretty penny to do so. Some even paid $300 to watch the game on the big screen outside of the stadium – waving their towels and sporting their cheese heads.

Some people are passionate about their jobs or hobbies. Classic cars, motorcycles, fishing, boats, hunting, gardening, and the list goes on and on. You can be passionate about your kids or your spouse.

There is nothing really wrong with being passionate about any of these things. We just have to keep them in perspective and not get obsessive.

However, there is one other area we need to look at more closely. How passionate are we for God or God’s work?

Do this exercise.

1) Think of an item from the list above (or one of your own thinking) and determine a level of passion you express towards that item. Give it a number between 1 and 10 (10 being the highest)
2) Now think of an area that God has been directing you to work for Him. Give it a number between 1 and 10.
3) Compare the two numbers.

(Just between you and me, my first number was higher than my second number. Shhh.)

Now if you are like me, you may ask the question, “Why is that so?” We can probably come up with about a hundred reasons why. And honestly, most of those would be because the focus is on ourselves. But the reasons do not matter. What matters is that we find the area God wants us to work and be as passionate about His work as we are the other things in our lives. After all, He is passionate about us and our well-being, so much so that He sent His Son to die for our sins.

So take some time this week to see if you can re-channel some of that passion for whatever floats your boat and place it in an area that God is directing you. I’m going to try it, wish me luck, say a prayer for me.