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A perspective about "The Passion" PART2 - a continuation of PART1

What gives you passion to endure all things?

Besides the unconditional forgiveness and love, that struck me, I could not get over the strength of purpose that Jesus exhibited.  In a word - PASSION.

Do you remember sitting there watching the adversity and wondering "how can He go on under all that stress?  What is fueling Him?"  I sure did.  What can make a human stand up after being beaten within an inch of their life, just so they can take another beating?  Who would not be defeated, by the cruelty and unjustly made to carry the cross?   I would have been defeated much earlier, I thought to myself.  

"My food is to do the will of the Father" - Jesus

At the beginning of the film, we see that Jesus wants to do as the Father commands, and that His body is terribly stressed against Him, to the point of shedding blood through sweat.  But, once the decision is made, He stands with the conviction of the decision that He has taken and crushes the serpents head.  From then, His PASSION is told beautifully in the movie, of how nothing could keep Him from His goal - the accomplishment of our redemption through the shedding of His blood.

I've seen this, that I can take on the world when I know what I am doing is right ... but even when I had to "sell" something at work, I could not lift a finger unless I KNEW that what I was selling was in their best interest to buy.  If it wasn't a good deal, then I was too defeated to even present it to an enemy.  

Disobedience saps my strength and leaves me defeated.  When I invite a way into my life that is not THE Way, and am crippled and undone so easily.  My strength is gone, my song is gone, and even what is sweet begins to taste bitter on my tongue.  

Once my boss told me to deceive customers, and under that oppression my morale for work was wasted away.  I had no drive.  No PASSION.

When I feel defeated, I know that the disintegration of myself is telling me something.  I have invited a way into my life that is not THE Way, every time I feel that I cannot go on.  Conversely, every time that I have strength to spare, and the passion to do more then I thought possible, it has been at times that I am doing what I am passionate about.  

I won't brag that I have more obedience then a common person you might meet at the street, but I will witness to the times that I have been obedient.  At those times I know where the "strength to go on" came from in Christ.  Obedience gives me a spring in my step, and a twinkle in my eye, and a song on my lips.  Obedience to a specific calling, has been like a berry in my mouth ... making everything in life taste sweet.  

Was obedience the berry in Jesus' mouth, that helped Him endure and persevere under the dire circumstances?  I tend to think that it had a lot to do with it.

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