Have you ever experienced a life-changing moment? Many would say they day they were married or the moments their children came into the world. These are definitely game changers, but what about something that totally changes you from the inside out?
Saul in the Bible persecuted Christians and made it his mission to see as many as he could be put to death. Then one day while on the road to Damascus, God confronted him in an up close and personal way asking him why he was persecuting the people of God.
This moment began Saul’s heart transformation through the power of God. God changed his name to Paul and his life radically changed to the point where his passion to persecute the people of God changed into a passion to pursue the heart of God—and partner with other followers and speak the name of God to all who would hear until the day he died.
The twelve disciples Jesus chose to be His inner circle were a ragtag bunch of seemingly random people—not extraordinary to the human eye. But Jesus saw more in them than they could see in themselves at the moment He called them to follow. Simon was a Zealot, which was a fanatic Jewish group of people who would kill in loyalty to Israel.
Jesus saw him as more and called him to walk with Him for the rest of his days. He turned from his ways and followed Christ. His passion and pursuit in life changed from killing others to saving them and reaching them with the life-giving message of Jesus.
Just like these men, and so many more throughout God’s Word, when you choose to accept Christ and follow the path He has planned for you, you have a life-changing, life-transforming moment. Whatever you were passionate about before, whatever you pursued before this moment, you see it all through a new perspective.
God will use the passion in your heart and redirect it to honor Him. God wants you hunger and thirst for Him and for His presence in your life. He desires to break your heart for what breaks His and to give you a spiritual fervor to crave more of Him and less of the world.
The more time you spend with Him, reading His Word and through prayer, the more you want to be with Him. Live a life infatuated with nothing else other than a love for God. Infatuated may sound a little dramatic to you, but it’s just being filled with extreme and unrestrained love and esteem for Him.
Allow Him to transform your life and give you a new passion that honors Him. What passion is God asking you to pursue today?
