Personal Passion

Who doesn’t love pizza!  Just don’t make mine a supreme; there’s way-way too many ingredients on it for my liking.  There is a rugged reality about New Testament believers: their faith wasn’t a devotion to a religion, a church, to service, to one another or to a personal experience.  All good parts of Christianity, but mere distractions: “The type of Christian experience in the New Testament is that of personal passionate devotion to the Person of Jesus Christ.” (Oswald Chambers).  Those wonderful parts afore mentioned – fellowship, service, prayer, study – are manifestations of true commitment to Christ.  John writes for us Jesus’ words: “But when He, the Spirit of Truth the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him] … He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.” (John 16:13-14, AMP).  Sadly, the average Christian becomes easily preoccupied with other things: “… Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us … looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross …” (Hebrews 12:1-2).  Whatever our personal passion is, in spiritual matters, our passion must rest solely in Christ and Christ alone!