Passion for God or are you just loving the cause?
Yesterday at Durham, Pastor Tim talked about passion for God and glorifying Him in your life. One thing that really challenged me was something he mentioned about living for a cause instead of for God. It didn’t actually hit me until this morning to be completely honest but as I was walking down the street I just suddenly realised that where I had presumed that I was sold out for God, in actual fact, I was not. I was living to see this nation changed which in itself is not a bad thing but it had taken my focus off of God and loving Him and glorifying His name and put it onto God changing the UK. In a way, that had taken God’s place.
As with all issues of the heart, I was absolutely gutted to realise that I was actually way off the mark (this seems to happen more often than I would like). However, One thing that is great is that God has been gracious to me once again and has revealed this so I was able to repent and to ask that He would help me to put Him first and to help me develop an all consuming desire for Him and to really love and get to know Him and to give me His desires for this nation as opposed to me getting all depressed and angry about the state we’re in and becoming despondent and wanting to give up and drawing away from God.
God seems to continuously be showing me His love through every thing that He says to me or every thing that I realise about Him, even in this instance, I can see the fact that He really cares about me because I am ME and is not angry or disappointed but lovingly shows me where I go wrong.
I just praise you Daddy because you amaze me continuously!