True Pasison wanes, or is it Contagious?

For all of us who have experienced God to some point, there has been an encounter then a response. If it has been the true power of God it is like a fire set to a dry stack of wood doused in fuel. But for many reasons and circumstances the passion that burns in our bones wanes and the fire is muddled down into embers that smoulder for years on end.

The painful reality is that this happens with most who encounter God. There is an equal and opposite reaction that attempts to undo what the experience has established as truth. For example, healing, God healed in the past yet He "doesn't" heal now, in great time of need. So, why believe that He heals anymore, because yesterday's truth is obsolete to today's circumstances?

But, the opportunity for hope, justice, good, love, happiness, etc. stokes the embers into flames. Passion fans the flame. I'm tired of offering allegory to fire and flame as passion, but its is the most applicable for our time.

God's goal is to show us His heart so that we may become like Him. He shows us by touching us in power, by shaking our whole being, undeniably speaking to us, revealing visions that were once in shadow and unknowing, etc. healing. Many time we are propelled by these acts and touches from God but it makes us yearn for another touch another experience. But maybe God is wanting to instill an important truth or virtue in us. Often we are distracted by our circumstance and wonder why "God doesn't come through" for us but he does for others. We see others blessing and want it for ourselves, and we neglect the blessing we originally received and peddle for something better or newer.

I have to remind myself of the way God encountered and touched me, undeniably changing my life forever. It is important to know that Jesus came to give us abundant life. Life is and is in every moment and Jesus came to make every moment abundant. Right now and in the past and in the near future, he has come to make this moment abundant. All we need to do is look for it. Look past the circumstance, frustrations, seeming realities, distractions, lies, sin, hurt, pain, death, war, injustice, sickness, and He is there to make it abundant. How does he do that in every moment and how do we access that abundant life, that heaven on earth reality? That is exactly why passion is crucial to not only surviving but to living abundantly in Him. Failure is inevitable but failure is only victorious if we choose not to learn from it and choose not to move on from it. There is so much more victory than failure.

Stir passion. As a flame, the bigger it is the more light and warmth it brings. The bigger it is the faster it consumes what is thrown into it, wether its dry seasoned wood or rotting damp sticks. Wether our circumstance are good or bad, the brighter our passion burns for Him, the less that circumstances distract us from the point of burning brightly. Which lead to another question, why do you burn brightly?