Motivation To Calm Souls

Life without passion is like college without the diploma. Passion is the driving force of life, thrusting us along in rolling waves. We have all ridden the waves of passion. More than that, we have all wished to be them.

You have seen them, have you not? In politics, during church, on the stage--those people who do not ride the waves of passion. They make them. Have we not wished to be them? Or to hold that passion within us?

It would be abnormal if we did not long to be consumed with a passion-filled life. That is because we were made for a passion-filled life. Sometimes it comes to us--through a sunset, a first kiss, a sermon. And at those times, how can we not help but desire to hold this passion with us forever?

The 3 keys to a passion-filled life are available to everyone because everyone is made to create waves of overwhelming inspiration out of life. The keys are easy. More importantly, the keys are natural to us. Performing them is like receiving that college diploma after four years of grueling work--reaction.

1. Those who can make waves out of life understand the basic principle of a passion-filled life:

Our passion can only consume us if it comes from something greater than who we are.

How do we find this? How do we learn a passion that is greater than who we are?

Worship.

Worship is the act of fervently saying thank you. Every human has the desire, the impulse, to worship. Whenever we do enter into the act of worship, we become a part of, and build a connection to, who we worship.

To be entirely consumed is to find something beyond ourselves. If we want to find the highest degree of a passion-filled life, then our worship must be of a highest degree. This requires asking what is the highest degree.

Well, put simply, God is the highest. So in order to become a part of the highest degree, we must connect with Him. And in order to be filled with the highest passion, worship to God must take place.

When we do worship God in acts of fervent praise, we connect with Him. This connection allows Him to fill us with passion. Without that worship, the connection, and thus the passion, would never become a part of us.

2. One of my dear friends once told me, "Passion is impossible without compassion."

I believe this to be true with every part of my being. In order to live a passion-filled life, we must develop:

A compassion.

Why? Because passion takes heart. It takes a love so strung that hundreds of carving knives can never cut the strings of our passion. That is what a passion-filled life takes. If we do not hold keep the fires of compassion burning bright, then our passion may never grow to its fullest potential.

People can be passionate about many things. All of us hold a passion for at least one thing. Though when the end comes, they seem to just come up short.

Sunset turns to night. Our first kiss turns to a second. Sermons are left in the wake for next service. The passion is cut short. How, then, do we keep our passion from fraying and find a compassion that will last?

There are two things on this earth that will not turn to dust:

• God
• People

God will last forever, and though people's bodies turn to dust, their spirits will live on for eternity.

Life is about more than coming up short. If we want this passion-filled existence, then it is time to develop a heart for God and His people. That compassion is the only compassion that will not drown in the waves. That compassion will fill us so deep, we will overrun with it, until finally, it begins to touch others.

That, is how waves are made.

3. Even if we do achieve a consuming passion, what is the point if we do nothing with it?

Plan.

The final key to a passion-filled life is to plan to touch the lives of people. The greatest plan is one that extends out beyond ourselves. Plan to work outside the spheres you have always known because that is all you can ever do. We limit ourselves to what surrounds us until we put ourselves in a place where we may expand.

There is an entire world who longs to touch the waves of passion your life can produce, and as you reach out to them, you expand your own heart, your own self, and your own passion. Then, you have become greater than yourself because you have made waves that are not the product of your compassion, but of God's unlimited passion-filled sea.

Start your passion-filled life today and plan to become a part of the passion that drives people to venture across the world. See how to become the greatest and experience the ultimate compassion.