Bishan church

Are you passionate for God?

July 1st, 2005

Last Sunday we had a dialogue on passion. Passion is what you are very interested or has great enthusiam for. It somehow comes from your character or deep within you.

Are you passionate?

What is your passion?

TeckSu
Likes to fix things. When he repairs something he is in a world of his own.
Repairing his roof will be his idea of fun. Maybe his theme song is James Taylor ” Up on the roof” !

James
Passion is to sing and dance. If given a choice, I want to go for dancing class
Grew up with with Broadway musicals. Lose myself and in a world of my own. My idea of de-stressing. See movements and colours in music. Makes me feel happy!

Marissa
Same as James. Did a lot of performance in school.

Dennis
Football. Whether injured ankle or not, he is ready to play. Would gravitate
towards sports shop. Must touch football boots and new footballs to enjoy the moment with his passion. May huff and puff about a football game but it’s part of the joy of it

Lian Chye
Likes to conceptualise, analyse. It looks like his mind is his playground of ideas

Peng Liam
Golf. He has a ’sabbath’ from his wife where he is left on his own to do what he wants for one day a week. Does not matter whether he wins or lose a gold game. He loses himself in golf and able to relax

Weiyang
Hordes of classical pieces and operas, some of them make him cry when he
listen to the music. Heavy, man!

Philip
Enjoys singing

Passion makes you lose yourself (or false self?) to expresss your real self.
There might be discouragement to stifle passion but it is hard to kill. Passion
causes you to aspire for higher goals. You impose performance on yourself . If someone forces a performance measure on you ,like you must score A for this or get 100% , it kills a budding passion.

Passion consumes you. You feel incomplete or there is a yearning taht needs to be fulfilled. It may influence what you see first, hear first, touch first like Dennis gravitating to sport shops, I will go for musicals or book shops, or Teck Su will walked down the aisle of the hardware section of a supermart.

Can we direct our passion to God’s work? and be eaten up by it ?

John 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of
thine house hath eaten me up.

2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after
a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of
yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement
desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved
yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Zeal is infectious. When we show passion, zeal and fervour, others just want to join us

2 Corinthians 9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I
boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and
your zeal hath provoked very many.

Have you ever been with a passionate person? You can’t help but be drawn to him, hating or loving him!

Zeal must be with knowledge. We must not be afraid of emotions, be afraid of only senselessness !

Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.

Lets’ stir each other up with our singing, with edification , with our labour of love

2 Timothy 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the
gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

2 Peter 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both
which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

james

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