Life is changing and I feel the pull to become thinner and thinner in order to please as many people as possible. I have work beginning soon, not college work, but real big-boy type work. I have to move cities, I have to study for this darn Physics Praxis I am taking tomorrow, I need to train. I need to do a lot of things over the next couple of days and weeks that sometimes it becomes overwhelming. And frustrating. Life is meant to be lived simply and without rush, because with rush comes the opportunity to miss something and I don't want to miss anything. I want to live in every moment because moments are all we have. We are not promised tomorrow, but we are constantly being blessed with this breath. One after the other is a blessing that needs to be exploited.
I see the lives of Andy Pendergrass and Michael Plette and I am honestly jealous. What living they are doing! What stories they are writing! What breaths they are exploiting! Life is meant to be lived not completed. Yet so often we are constantly caught up in the rat race of life only to live in hopes of the vacation week three weeks from now, so that we can get a break from the mundane blitz of life. However, through that we end up coasting through three weeks being nothing more than an object taking up space.
Useless is another way to say it.
But I don't want to be useless. I would rather die then be useless. To look back on weeks of ones life and have nothing to show for it is the lowest a life can get. I don't want that. I hate that thought. Just writing about it now makes me burn with anger. I like the feeling. I believe Jesus has blessed me with that feeling of hate for laziness and meaninglessness. I am thankful for that. It is a freeing feeling. One that makes you feel alive; its crazy how Christ can do that.
I understand that this blog is not a long one; I don't feel like it needs to be. There is no deep thought in it, just a passion that I hope you can see. A passion to live. May you too find this passion, because through this you are able to fulfill the greatest calling. Living this passion for Him.
I would like to end this blog with some praise and encouragement for a couple of guys that I mentioned earlier. Andy and Michael I encourage you two to continue living with the passion I see in both of you now. Continue to strive for more than the average and the mundane, but for everything out of every moment. Above all - die to self. He is all, be amazed by Him today. I love you boys. It has been an honor to see you live life.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
The Passionate
Today I will have a very short and concise blog. There will be no drawn out stories or witty comments just a thought that has been running through my head for a few days.
Having a passion for something.
As I sit here watching Braveheart I see a man who was passionate about the freedom of his country of Scotland. He was passionate to such a degree that his life was made naught. He considered the freedom of his people the most important mission of his life and he ultimately died for that mission. What made him a person worth following? What set him apart from any of the other Scotsman of the day? It was his passion.
Think of the great rulers throughout time. Adolf Hitler, Ganges Kan, Winston Churchill, Napoleon, or even Mussolini. Whether these rulers were followers of Christ or not was irrelevant. They all had passion; however misled, it was still there. The ultimate picture of a passion was Christ. He was passionate about the Father and every morsel of His body pointed toward seeing the Father glorified.
You can see this passion in one of Christ's last days, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done." What passion! What utter determination! What a man! This segways directly into what I want to talk about next. The fruits of a passionate life.
A passion brings forth an utmost confidence. This confidence brings makes leaders and these leaders make followers that are willing to do anything for that passion. Again look at any of the leaders and you will find that this is true for all of their lives.
I want this passion for my life. This type of passion inspires and I want to show them my inspiration. I want to be able to say as Christ said, "...Your will be done."
May you too seek this passion because this world is lacking in passionate people. And with passionate people comes passionate generations. That is my desire, that a passionate generation may be sparked for the glory of the King.
Having a passion for something.
As I sit here watching Braveheart I see a man who was passionate about the freedom of his country of Scotland. He was passionate to such a degree that his life was made naught. He considered the freedom of his people the most important mission of his life and he ultimately died for that mission. What made him a person worth following? What set him apart from any of the other Scotsman of the day? It was his passion.
Think of the great rulers throughout time. Adolf Hitler, Ganges Kan, Winston Churchill, Napoleon, or even Mussolini. Whether these rulers were followers of Christ or not was irrelevant. They all had passion; however misled, it was still there. The ultimate picture of a passion was Christ. He was passionate about the Father and every morsel of His body pointed toward seeing the Father glorified.
You can see this passion in one of Christ's last days, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done." What passion! What utter determination! What a man! This segways directly into what I want to talk about next. The fruits of a passionate life.
A passion brings forth an utmost confidence. This confidence brings makes leaders and these leaders make followers that are willing to do anything for that passion. Again look at any of the leaders and you will find that this is true for all of their lives.
I want this passion for my life. This type of passion inspires and I want to show them my inspiration. I want to be able to say as Christ said, "...Your will be done."
May you too seek this passion because this world is lacking in passionate people. And with passionate people comes passionate generations. That is my desire, that a passionate generation may be sparked for the glory of the King.
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