For the Love of Us All

WITNESS

5-3-13

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

Ps        WITNESS        5-3-13

“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to ALL men-

It teaches us to say “NO” to ungodliness and worldly passions and

To live self-controlled-upright-and godly lives in the present age”

Titus 2:11 & 12