Keith on Passionate Spirituality

The following is a post by our Prayer Leader, Keith Findling:

This morning as I arrived home with my bags of groceries just retreived from Safeway and getting them put away where they go I had the thought; I don't really have much passion for this business, it's a job I have to do.

Then it dawned on me the difference between doing that kind of thing and the process of breathing. I have a passion to breathe. Clear proof of that necessity would come by putting a platic bag over one's head and then see how quick it comes a primary objective to get it back off to get some air. Passion is not something we cause to happen. We can diminish or remove passion effect with a decision but we don't bring it up with a decision. Passionate spirituality won't happen without the Spirit that is passionate. Webster uses words like powerful, ardent adoring, boundless enthusiasm, deep, overwhelming, highly intense, forceful devotion. Then passionate arises from and is the expression of passion. The first Adam was of the earth and became a living soul when God breathed into him the breath of life. The "last Adam", as Christ is called, became a life giving spirit. It feels to me that there needs to be an understanding come to the people by some means that it isn't us who have passionate spirituality, it is the very spirit of Christ himself, or the Holy Spirit as we know him better, to fill and have the compelling desire for the reading of the  Word, to pray, to worship God and above all things seek after the relationship with the Father as His children.

All of that really means what I would say in one line. We can't decide passion of spirituality, passion of spirituality we must let have us.

So that's my human passion and longing for the body. 

-Keith