PASSION---DO YOU HAVE IT
One of my favorite movies
Is a movie called “SERENDIPITY”
In it---our hero Jonathon
Traeger
Loses the two loves of his life---in the same night
One woman is his fiancée
The other is his soul mate
Whom he hasn’t seen in about 8 years
As Jonathon and his best friend
Walk down the street
Jonathon looks at his best friend ( a professional obituary
writer ),
And says,
“Did you write my obituary?”
His friend looks back and says,
“The Greeks didn’t believe in
obituaries
They just asked one question:
Did he have passion?”
Passion is defined as a powerful
emotion
Such as love, joy, hatred, anger;
Or to have boundless enthusiasm for something
So, I’ll ask you
Do you have boundless enthusiasm for anything
If so, for what
And two more questions:
Do you have boundless enthusiasm for loving God?
Do you have a passion for loving others?
If your answers to these two questions are yes
You are fulfilling or attempting
to fulfill
What Christ tells us
Are the two greatest commandments
In Matthew 22 (
22:35-46 )
An expert in Jewish law
Is trying to trap Jesus
He asks,
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment
In the law?”
Jesus responds,
“Love the Lord your God
With all your heart
And with all your soul
And with all you mind
This is the first
And greatest commandment
And the second is like it
Love your neighbor as yourself
All the law
And the prophets
Hang on these two commandments”
Jesus lived his life with such
passion
For God and for others
That the last hours of his life
Between the last supper and the crucifixion
Are called---THE PASSION
But the truth is
His entire life is THE PASSION
Well Jonathon did lose his
fiancée
But he did wind up with his soul
mate
As the movie ends
They are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary
So finally---my wish for you is
this
That you live your life with
such passion
That when you reach those white pearly gates
Saint Peter looks at you ( and me ), and says,
“Yes-thou art too with Jesus
Your very nature betrays you
Come on in our good and faithful servant”
Robert P. Wallman
2-5-12
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