PASSION FOR PASSION AT EASTER
(Modest Thoughts with Ayuba Yilgak'ha, April 8, 2023; SMS: 08116181263)
Passion is someone's practical drive or motivation toward achieving something worthy. It is a mix of interest & determination in the process of getting a cause reached!
It is so critical in the world of dreams and works. David Jeremiah's book, "Life Wide Open" which was published in 2003 profoundly chronicles how important passion is through the following statements:
i. Without a purpose fueled by passion, nothing in life matters.
ii. Passion is the inner spark, provided by God, that ignites you to live out your God-given purpose.
iii. I can think of nothing worthwhile in life that was achieved without great passion.
iv. A purpose not fueled by inner drive and enthusiasm is mere drudgery. In other words, passion is purpose and the purpose is passion.
Socrates once wrote that a man who has no passion for anything is not worth living. This means that passion is proof of someone's living.
Anyone who is lacking in passion only exists and cannot add to the value chain of the society in which he found himself. One is as good as dead when he is bereft of inner drive for something.
Lack of passion is an advanced form of laziness. Laziness is sheer indifference or an unyielding attitude toward work.
A lazy man fears that work kills and, therefore, submits to the conditions that kill even faster: rent-seeking, dependency, and poverty. These are existential problems that are demeaning in all ramifications even if one survives them!
Passion is what will is, to a man. It is what a wheel is to any locomotive or fuel to automobiles. This shows that passion is necessary for things to move or get done.
Passion is the Revealer of interest. The expression of it tells a lot about what one really cares about. Like a punctured tire, passion goes flat when interest is lost.
Passion is a silent energiser. When situations get tough, only passion can keep someone going. Where there is no passion, even easy tasks are abandoned with no regrets.
It is important to note that nothing good comes easy. Anonymous puts it thus: 'Life doesn't get easy, you just get stronger'. And you know what? Only passion can guarantee one becoming stronger or even strongest!
Passion is an overcoming spirit. It greases the wheel of one's determination to realise a dream. Therefore, to be passionate about something means to go all out for it. It is an insurance for patience and diligence in workplace!
Passion is what love is to a man. It is as strong as death. When it comes, laws and logic are suspended. It gets someone waking up daily to pursue a cause without asking many questions.
The worth of passion is in its ability to get good things done. This entails that passion is worthless when deployed to crush or destroy someone or anything.
Passion is insistence personified. Like a river, nothing can block its way. Passion will always negotiate its way through and get to its destination with time.
Passion is involved when glass ceilings are shattered and new standards set in the world of work. Show me a man who has achieved any great feat and I will show you a man with passion.
It takes great passion to produce that great engineer you read about in the news. It is passion that is behind that great scientist that discovers the law of motion. Passion makes great sportsmen, women and business moguls. It is the rudder that changes the course of history.
With passion, comes obsession; and with obsession comes unique skills that comes from doing something constantly.
If you have passion for something worthwhile, be it school, business, professional career, etc., pursue it. There is no better charge than this!
This piece: Passion for Passion at Easter, is primarily and summarily all about eulogising the undiluted good news of the Love of God which requires all partakers of the grace of God to passionately uphold and share.
In Psalm 107: 2 (NIV), the scriptures says: Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaim that he has redeemed them from the hand of the for (the Devil). It is a passionate call to duty but a command too:
''Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain'' (about the salvation of Jesus Christ). "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations..." (Mathew 28:19). There is a literally easthetic reward: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, 'Your God reigns!' (Isaiah 52:7).
Remember the passion week of Jesus Christ? He gallantly went through the agony of the cross for the sake of passion-cum-love for the redemption of man kind. He went through it all for your sake and my sake too. He has paid it all! It is finished! But the task of publishing the good news has just begun! Happy Easter celebration to christians all over the world!
