This is a wonderful song, full of honor and glory and praise
for the King. During the video the camera pans the audience/congregation
showing a very passionate group of people pouring themselves out emotionally
before the Lord.
As I have the opportunity to travel for work, I am in many
worship gatherings and have been privileged to be a part of such worship on
occasion. We were visiting a church in the Los Angeles area whose speaking
pastor had just returned from a short term mission experience somewhere. He was
changed, no doubt, as he could neither really put into words what he had
experienced nor what he should now do. At the end of his message he asked his
flock how many would follow Jesus to the ends of the earth. The whole place stood
to their feet, raising their hands and verbally responding. It was moving.
I found myself sitting there afterward, as everyone returned
to their usual, casual selves, thinking, “What now?” Emotions had been high and
passions were being poured out like water before the King…but what now? When
will our passion produce? When will it spill out of our hallowed halls onto the
streets outside?
Passion is so much more easily expressed in community, when
expectations mesh and risk is low. Boiling passion down to “doing” in the real
world becomes work that requires the commitment of time, energy and money; not
a popular topic among too many. Commitment is required, though, for Kingdom
growth…commitment that results in action.
Just how far will your passion take you? What if God
required of you what you promised him while within the four walls of a church
building or while praying quietly, alone. What will your answer be when he
whispers, “Who can we send? Who will go for us?” My guess is that you will
answer, “Hear am I, send me.” When you do, get ready to put action to your
words. Obedience is rarely something that can be accomplished with passion
alone.
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