Sacred Passion

Sacred Passion
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 by Charlotte S. Snead

God, our Creator, intended us for Passion–passion for God, for a noble cause, for a hobby, a vocation, or a lover. Sacred Passion is God’s gift, and His idea.

Followers of Jesus are filled with His passionate life, but even the natural man has passion, because we are created in God’s image, and He is passionate. Throughout our spiritual lives we experience varying levels in our devotion or passion toward God. At times His presence feels intimate, and we can scarcely breathe. Worship can lift us into His presence, or a stirring message, Depth of emotion can draw us into His arms. Walking through fear or loss, confusion or turmoil, we reach for Him Who is our strength, cling to Him and pour out our hearts to Him.

Every saint has known “dark nights of the soul,” when God’s presence is nowhere to be found and our hearts are dry. We lose interest in God, our vocations, perhaps in life itself, wondering if He even cares. But after we cling by blind faith, we come to a place where we realize he has remained faithful, even when we were faithless. We are i9ndeed carved on the palms of His hands. God is crazy about His kids!

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Jesus only rebuked his disciples for lack of faith—oh, and not allowing the children to come to Him—saving his rebukes for religious leaders who were hypocrites. After feeding five thousand and then four thousand, how could his disciples fret over no bread on their sail across the lake? The Master could feed thirteen men if he had fed thousands! Yet I faltered over less than that last week.

My blog masters called me last Monday, asking if I knew my website was down. No. We worked all morning to discover why, knocking on closed doors. Word Press had closed my site, handing it off to another company. Me of little faith wept. I am launching a new book. A Place to Live came out last month and I’m in the midst of marketing it. All my marketing has the old website name on it. Didn’t God know this?

Of course He did, and by the end of the day my wonderful blog masters at Celebrity Web Design had a new one set up, one that I own: charlottesnead.com

How cool is that? Just my name. I didn’t even know I could do that. God can do exceeding abundantly. So I downloaded all my subscribers and notified them of the name change. Since that time, I have doubled them! Thank you, God. Like the father I cry out: I believe, Lord, help Thou mine unbelief. Forgive me.

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