Passion

Passion is the heart set free to pursue that which is truly worthy. Those who set their hearts on what is most worthy--the glory of God--live with joy-filled abandon. Their hearts are both seized and satisfied with the ambition of Jesus to be ardently worshiped. That love comes to dominate and integrate all other desires so that they live in the freedom of single-minded purpose.

-Steven C. Hawthorne

I am getting so much out of the Perspectives class I am taking, that I hope to share with you some of what I am ruminating on. As we see God at work throughout the Bible, we encounter His zealous passion. Jesus desires us to share in His passion, in order to enter His mission. The point of Jesus' passionate teaching, his mission here on earth, is the hope that the nations themselves will live life in full-hearted worship to the one true God of the universe.