Passion

“Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: ‘Passion for God’s house will consume me.’”- John 2:17 NLT

What’s your passion?

What is it that you enjoy doing or being a part of more than just about anything?

For me, it has been basketball. 

Whether playing, coaching, watching, or even refereeing, I love basketball. Have since I was three years old. Some people might say I was passionate about it.

For awhile I had lost that passion. Still played some but it was just playing. I had allowed something and/or someone to steal my passion. And thus, I was just kind of done for a while.

Then my girls started playing. And the passion and love for the game returned. I loved coaching them and their friends (and new friends they made). At least some of that passion was handed down from generation to generation.

The question is this:

Do we glorify God with our passion? 
Or do we glorify ourselves, if we glorify anything at all?

Whether playing or coaching, do I bring glory to God?

And honestly, I have to say, not always. 

Sometimes, especially early on, it was more about my kids or my team or my coaching or whatever else might be happening on the floor than bringing glory and honor and praise to my God.

So, in that case, my passion for basketball outweighed and got in the way of my passion for God.

How can that be? 
How can we allow anything in our lives to outweigh our love and passion for Jesus?

At my house and on my teams, we’ve always said that we wanted to “glorify God through how hard we play, how well we do, and how much fun we have doing it.” 

Sometimes we have to do more than say it….
We have it to show it. 
We have to live it. 
I have to live it.

We are called to take up our cross and follow Jesus. 
Called to become more like Him. 
Called to be passionate about Him and the things He is passionate about, first and foremost.

Even above anything we might be passionate about. 

Even above “me”

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