001 – SEPTEMBER 2003
JN 12:35 “YET A LITTLE WHILE IS THE LIGHT WITH YOU. WALK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT, LEST DARKNESS COME UPON YOU; FOR HE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH.”
LET ME ASK YOU A GREAT QUESTION. IN YOUR WALK WITH CHRIST, WHAT COMES FIRST – PASSION OR DISCIPLINE?
DOES YOUR PASSION FOR CHRIST PROMOTE GREAT DISCIPLINE? OR, DOES DAILY DISCIPLINE ADVANCE GODLY PASSION?
GOOD QUESTION?
I WAS ASSURED THAT DISCIPLINE CAME FIRST. THEN I SPOKE WITH SOMEONE WHO WAS CERTAIN THAT PASSION CAME FIRST. SO, I MEDITATED WITH JESUS ABOUT IT AND HAVE COME TO THIS CONCLUSION.
IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU ARE AT!!!
MY FRIEND HAD PASSION. IF YOU ARE HOT FOR CHRIST … IF YOU ARE STILL IN LOVE WITH THE LORD … IF YOU HAVE JESUS ON YOUR MIND … THEN, OF COURSE, DISCIPLINE BECOMES ALMOST IRRELEVANT BECAUSE YOU ARE JUST DOWN RIGHT EXCITED TO PRAY. YOU ARE ANXIOUS TO READ YOUR BIBLE. AND YOU JUST CAN’T WAIT TO GET TO CHURCH.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE ARE THOSE TIMES WHEN READING YOUR BIBLE AND EVEN PRAYING CAN SEEM TO BE A TASK. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DISTANT FROM THE LORD? MAYBE FOR A LONG TIME? MAYBE RIGHT NOW? THIS IS WHEN IT BECOMES MOST IMPORTANT TO ENGAGE SOME SERIOUS DISCIPLINE INTO YOUR LIFE. IT WILL BRING PERSONAL REVIVAL. MAKE A KINGDOM DECISION TO DISCIPLINE YOUR DAILY ROUTINE AND THE PASSION WILL RETURN.
REV 2:4 & 5 “ … BECAUSE THOU HAST LEFT THY FIRST LOVE.
REMEMBER THEREFORE FROM WHENCE THOU ART FALLEN, AND REPENT, AND DO THY FIRST WORKS.”
