PASSION for JESUS

In the last couple of months, I have experienced the greatest time in my life! I finally began to trust God with everything in my life. Through His word and prayer He has instilled a passion in my heart that I have never had! I look back to a year ago even 6 months or 3 months ago and I was living a defeated life because I was relying on myself for pretty much everything. Through a process I have began surrendering things over to Christ. I have learned so much in the last month about how much I really need Christ in my everyday life and I have learned so much.

This week at our Campus Crusade meeting I shared a message that was on my heart, it was a message about Jesus and how we should lay down everything to trust Him alone. Philippians 3:7 Everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ--the righteousness from GOD based on faith." Do we really consider everything to be loss? or do we hold onto to things? If we hold onto things we are exchanging our lives for those things and not following Christ (Matthew 16:24-26) Our passion should not be for anything EXCEPT Christ, our soul should not crave or desire anything else but for the Savior who humbled Himself to the point of death, that is why His name is above all names! (Philippians 2:8-9) So the question is: what do we hold onto that we would exchange our life for and miss out on what Christ has to offer? Are you passionate about something more than Jesus??

These are questions I have had to ask myself recently and I really can say for once that I'm in the process of giving over everything, I'm letting Him be the One and only passion of my heart!