What has consumed you so much you have become in bondage to it? What drives your passions, desires, likes, dislikes, and choices? Is it money, power, the feeling of achievement, yearning to be noticed, feeling as though no one cares? Why do you do what you do?
It's a legitimate question. Only you can answer that, or can you? Is it possible you have been blinded by whatever that you don't even know why you are doing what you are doing? I look at my life and see two distinct answers to my passion. Five months ago my passion was driven by the desire of achievement to have the professional and educational world to tell me "Good job." Now I can say my passion is fueled by one thing and that is to hear my God say, "Good job, my faithful child." The difference is as plain as purple and yellow. One passion is driven by man's approval while the other is driven by God-the maker of this world. Matthew chapter six verses nineteen through twenty-one discusses that the work that is done here on earth is corruptible. It will be destroyed just as things turn to dust, so will our achievements that look so successful to man's eyes. So why do we pursue so badly to gain the approval of man? What has warped our thinking so much that we so easily forget what God thinks, expects, and desires and skip right to man? Matthew continues in verse twenty-four to say that no one can serve two masters, for either he will hate
the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise
the other. You cannot serve God and money. Ultimately we have a choice to make. You have to make a choice. Will you choose an eternal God or a temporal man?
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