The enemy of passion is indifference. You go through the motions, but your focus is broken by other things. It\u2019s not that you have said no<\/i> to God; it\u2019s that you haven\u2019t said a resounding yes<\/i>! In the Old Testament account, King Amaziah \u2018did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n
Think about it: at what point does the passion leave a marriage? It doesn\u2019t happen overnight. It happens when you neglect and take each other for granted. Maybe you think your lack of zeal is no big deal. Think again! Jeremiah warns about \u2018a curse on anyone who is lax<\/i> [negligent, slack, slipshod] in doing the Lord\u2019s work!\u2019<\/i> (Jeremiah\u00a048:10\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
You say, \u2018How does it happen?\u2019 The Bible tells us, \u2018This people\u2019s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.\u2019<\/i> (Acts\u00a028:27\u00a0NIV) The word \u2018calloused\u2019<\/i> depicts a steady build-up of hard, dead skin on the soles of your feet until you can\u2019t walk right or without pain. Note what Jesus told the first and last two churches in Revelation: <\/p>\n
(1) \u2018I hold this against you: you have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.\u2019<\/i> (Revelation\u00a02:4\u20135\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
(2) \u2018I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm\u2026 I am about to spit you out of My mouth.\u2019<\/i> (Revelation\u00a03:15\u201316\u00a0NIV) With that in mind, the word for today is\u2014be passionate about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The enemy of passion is indifference. You go through the motions, but your focus is broken by other things. It\u2019s not that you have said no to God; it\u2019s that you haven\u2019t said a resounding yes! In the Old Testament account, King Amaziah \u2018did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}