Return to Passion

I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. (Psalm 27:13)

David said I would have lost heart I would have lost my passion accept I believed. David made this his declaration based on what he believed, and his declaration was that he would see the goodness of God. We know that what we declare based on what we believe will determine what we see and what we see will determine what we do. The power of life and death is in the tongue and those that love it will eat its fruit.

When God created man in his own image and in his own likeness, it was not just a mater of being like him in image or a photo or a reflection of Him, when God created ua in His image it was a likeness of heart and mind and attitude and an image that God himself wanted to fellowship with. God opened the porthole of eternity to be with his image and likeness, there was a passion in the heart of God to be with His created image, you and I. (Gen 3:8a nkjv) and they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

Have you ever loved some one that never returned that same passion? Have we ever for instance stopped to consider how much passion Jesus expressed to do what he did for you and me? Love and passion have to find an expression for itself it cannot be locked up. Right from the very beginning when you and I were the dream in the heart of God He was making a way possible for us to return to Him because man would make a choice to turn away from Him, before time even begun His love was looking for a way to express its self to pour it self out on the object of His love which of course is you and I.

Jesus went to the place the slavery place of Golgotha to pay a price for a people that were already his. The bible says that we are brought with a price. He paid the price of redemption he paid the price of reconciliation; he closed the slave market over our life and released us to be the bride that He chose in the first place. Hosea paid the fifteen shekels and the half homers of barley for a bride that was already his.

Jesus paid the price of His life for a people that he created in His own image and likeness. Where sin abounds grace does much more abound.

My challenge this morning is, where is His return, what is holding back the things that we should bring in return for such love and passion,

His thanks, worship, love, passion, time and resources. Where is our passion for him and his kingdom, on the gauge of importance where does He rate?