THOSE WHO LIVE PASSIONATELY

To do great things requires self-produced passion. College courses do not teach passion, and self-discipline cannot help cultivate it. This infectious state of being only stems from a genuine, shameless, uncontrollable love for its object.

Those who live passionately love what they do and those they do it for. To them, living their passion in front of their particular audience is more compensation than a billion dollars received for a drudgery existence.

In 1 Corinthians 13:13, Apostle Paul said,' And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.' A more extended excerpt from that Bible chapter reads this way in the Passion Translation of the Bible:

'Love is large and incredibly patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else . Love does not brag about one's achievements nor inflate its own importance. Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up. Love never stops loving. It extends beyond the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades away. It is more enduring than tongues, which will one day fall silent. Love remains long after words of knowledge are forgotten. '

Love makes you larger than life, and passionate love brings a man as close to a god as the Most High GOD envisioned during creation. When you love what you do and the people you serve, even the most basic products seem like the Mona Lisa. Every opportunity to serve is a grand command performance.

God's kind of love is the greatest not because of piety but because it embodies and utilizes more than eight passionate traits that the Holy Spirit Produces abundantly through our human spirit, which bring out the best in any human being. According to Galatians 5:22-23, they are: 'joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance'.

Our Lord Jesus Christ even took it a step further when a duplicitous fellow tried to entrap him by asking a leading question, and Jesus made a case for overwhelming love for life: '

"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" Jesus answered him, " 'Love the Lord your God with every passion of your heart, with all the energy of your being, and with every thought that is within you.' This is the great and supreme commandment. And the second is like it in importance: 'You must love your friend in the same way you love yourself.' Contained within these commandments to love you will find all the meaning of the Law and the Prophets."' - Matthew 22:35-40(The Passion Translation)

Those who live with passionate love become the greatest on the face of the earth.

Unfortunately, the world is now a theatre of soulless, time-serving agenda-chasers with no passion for what they claim to live for. People equate their desire for money with love for the people they serve or the experience they so eagerly claim they want them to have.

Once again, I pray pure love finds you and drives you to live and give passionately until you're emptied of every good thing you brought into this world in Jesus' mighty name.

#Amen