Jesus Is My Passion

iamnotofthisworld:

LUKEWARM.

Alright ya’ll so Steve, http://followjesuschrist.tumblr.com/, asked me this, “So what is the first youtube video that comes to mind if I ask you about Francis Chan? Post a link and explain why that’s what came to mind :-)”

Simple. This short lukewarm video. He has an entire series, but I doubt many of you would even watch this. It’s all about pictures.. not many people who follow me have a burning desire for God, to know him, to listen to sermons, to meditate on the Word.. and nonetheless would read this post. To the people who want to drink from living water will most likely read this and I want to say thank you for not passing it because I didn’t post a beautiful picture to go with it. There isn’t wrong anything wrong with pictures, but do you guys just ever sit there and read a post because it might just give you a new perspective? Change your life? Something you have been anticipating!? Woop. Anyway, back to the question asked.. 

1. This is the first video that comes to my mind when I hear Francis Chan.

2. Now explaining why is the hard part. 

Christians are in a slumber. They are okay with being half way in and half way out. Not completely committed to preaching the Gospel. Now, I am not pointing fingers. This video speaks to me a lot because I am in the same boat; I am lukewarm. Lately, there is no passion to seek God’s face. Lately, my ears and eyes of my spirit have become dull.. But the problem is, most Christians are like that.

Now in this video he says what choices lay before us: We can either walk out of a service, fixing our lives according to the passage preached or we can go out and be lukewarm and not care. That breaks my heart.

Lately, I have been stumbling. I asked for prayers. The importance is that I am so desperate to be completely changed to serve God, live for God, know God, get to heaven and meet God, the one that I know- wrapped up from my bible. The absolute desire of my heart is to say I have fought the good fight of faith. I mean, for the last five months, my spiritual life is just going down the tubes. I am losing more passion everyday, but does that mean I quit? No! For I stand on verses telling me to stay steadfast! For my mind says God isn’t real because of my sin. My dwelling in sin. My sin has separated me from my Lord, Jesus because He is holy. 

But am I going to sit there and watch God pass me by? YOU BET NOT. I have dry bones. I am so deprived of His presence and by His grace, I am fighting this good fight of faith because His grace is good and He is worthy. 

So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. 1 Corinthians 15:58

When I am fighting for the Lord, it won’t be in vain and it isn’t useless. Endurance produces character and let me tell you, I will NOT be asleep when the Lord comes back. 

In this video, Chan tells us, “quit your job, sell your house, do whatever it takes” until you find Him. Why? Because Jesus is worthy. When I am falling into sin, just watching it grow, oh, God has given us victory. 

The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more. Romans 5:20.

Thank God, cause His grace is all that is sustaining me. Man, oh man, I am nothing apart from Jesus. He does everything in me and through me. This strength to fight this battle does not come from within. 

I love this: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Romans 6:1-4. 

Jesus died to give us a new life.. SO WHY STAND HERE SO DIRTY, full of wretched sin? 

I am so sick of myself. I am like killing Jesus myself every time I sin, breaking my beloved’s heart, and I am not doing it anymore. 

Quit your job, because being on fire for God is way more important.

Don’t eat, because eating the bread of life and drinking from His living waters is so much more important.

Sell your house, because Jesus is far much greater than any posession owned.

He is all we have. 

“You can’t die lukewarm, can’t you see that?”

Yes, I see that. I want the truth. No matter how ugly it perceives to be: it’s life.

Give me Jesus.

Oh and prayers would be awesome. I need to filled all over again.