Did you see the recent news piece about the NY Giants football fans who lost their minds after their team lost the game? It seems that they were so overwhelmed with sadness that they took a baseball bat to a Porsche in the parking lot. They almost completely destroyed that car. I guess they thought it belonged to one of their own players who lost the game on purpose. At what point did the concept that it is only a game escape them?  But you know, right or wrong, you’ve got to admire their passion….

Passion is kind of a funny word. If used in reference to crazy football fans, it sounds destructive. A sense of power that is unrestrainable.  When used in reference to how I feel about my wife, it has a great emotional content to it. A feeling of intensity in my love for her. But what about when it is used in reference to how we serve God? Does our service for God, the things we do for God, have any element of passion? Does it have that sense of being unrestrained, an unstoppable force? A passion for God that has an intensity factor that compels us to do for the one we love? I wonder… do we need to get a new passion for God?

Passion also reminds me of a little fruit. It comes in a variety of colors and sizes, depending on where in the world it comes from. But you know one thing all the different varieties of passion fruit have in common? Seeds. They all have seeds that are traceable back to the original fruit. Although they have a great diversity and variety, they have the commonality of seeds. And those seeds got me thinking. We all know what happens to any kind of fruit when the seeds remain in the fruit. They never meet the intention of the one who made those seeds. Seeds are for the purpose of planting.

Is there a connection between the seed that has been given to us as believers and the passion we have for the Lord? There has to be. It only makes sense that the more we grow and learn about the Lord, the more passion we should have for Him and advancing His Kingdom. It just seems natural - the seed sown into our lives, is there to be planted. But too often this isn’t the case. Sometimes I think we get a kick out of counting the seeds we have.

And as I pondered this, the Lord spoke to my heart – the seed I have sown into your life, is to be planted for a kingdom harvest. God gave that seed a purpose and a reason for existing. God has given us the seed, not to keep, but to sow. And the more we sow, the less interested we get in keeping the seed. And the more we sow, lives are change and the more passionate we get about advancing His Kingdom, which is what we’re really supposed to be about anyway.

Let’s go sow some seed…