Living with passion and love for Jesus Christ is the mission of The Christian Woman's Page. It sounds wonderful! It's what every Christian should long to achieve. But what does that look like in real life? How do you live it? Pretty good questions huh? Have you ever thought about that yourself?
For me, living with passion and love for Jesus means that you start consciously choosing to do what Christ would have you. No matter how hard, gut wrenching or easy, you put your heart into your best effort to do what is Biblically correct as you understand it at the time. Now that doesn't mean just because you want to you're immediately going to succeed. And it doesn't mean you're going to be right either, but it means you have done, to the best of your ability, what you thought God was calling you to do. Being passionate and loving also includes being humble. That's often the hard part.
Being humble means that when God reveals truth to us, we graciously admit we were wrong and then move forward. For some, humility is the hardest thing they will ever accomplish. I know for me humility didn't come easy - not that I have a corner on the market even now. Some weeks I feel like I'm living more of the Galatians 5:19-21 life. You know the one that Paul condemns? {sigh} But we all grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit transforms us. If we're making the effort to grow and seek him, God will honor that. Within weeks, months or years, we'll be able to see the flaws in our previous thinking and make better choices, balanced with more grace and truth.
God knows I've failed more times than I care to admit, but it was a start. More importantly it was honest. We are sinful, but God meets us where we are and leads us to where he wants and needs us to be. We will fail, we will succeed. All God wants is our very best effort with a heart that longs to serve him. When we give that, it is passion and love.
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