What passion are you sharing with others?

People who are passionate about something seem to work it into most of their conversations. Their husband or wife, children and grandchildren come up naturally even in conversations that initially have nothing to do with them. Baits, knots and exaggerated length are the topic of someone who is passionate about fishing. The smell of the grass, ERAs and BPs are the phrases of a baseball fan. It doesn't take long in a conversation to begin to figure out what someone is passionate about.

Passion comes across in more than what is said but in the feelings that are created in the heart of the receiver. Long after the conversation is over the words may have been forgotten but how they felt from the passion in your voice will linger.

Jesus communicated His passion very simply and very clearly. "As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you." [John 20:21]

Here are the two great passions of Jesus, handed down from generation after generation. If you are not a Christian or easily embrace that label, here lays the great twofold passion of Jesus; to do the will of God the Father and send out men and women to do the same.

Jesus, God the Son, from the beginning of His ministry recognized and understood the great passion to do the will of God the Father. He was anointed to preach the good news. He submitted himself to a calling that would ultimately demand his own life. Through that loss, death and sin were conquered.

These few moments where he outlines this two-pronged passion to the remaining apostles reminds us all that His passion, the passion of Easter, was not whimsical or haphazard. His passion was very clear and very precise. God had created man for more than what man was experiencing.

As He was sent, now He sends. He sends the remaining and all those who believe from their day, to ours and beyond to share their own passion. Not to force conversations, to demand confessions, but to share the passion. Telling their stories of life without and now with God. To touch, to serve, to lend aid because they have been touched, served and given aid.

Passion lingers when souls are touched. Jesus was sent, now He sends. The passion of your soul saturates all you come in contact with. What passion are you sharing today?

Robert Hurtgen is a husband, father, minister and writer. Read more from him at www.robhurtgen.wordpress.com.