Seems today's passage comes at an opportune time. I'm looking at 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 and 8 words of the many in that passage keep ringing out to me. Verse 14 begins, "For the love of Christ urges us on" and I cannot get that thought out of my mind.
Maybe it's because of what I'm currently going through with my summer school duties. As some of you may or may not know I'm an assistant for a math class in a high school summer course. Very intense, emotionally and mentally draining, and yet very rewarding. I say rewarding because I see how the youth in my class are blossoming, learning, gaining self-esteem, and passing math. As I walk around I hear little "eurekas" - "wow, I get it now", "summer school makes me feel good about myself", "I think I can do this in regular school now."
In 2 Corinthians Paul is trying to unite the church he helped start. It would seem that there has been a major division along religious beliefs and Paul really wants that church to understand it isn't about the rules, rather it's about the love. In the passage for today Paul is beginning an argument that through our belief in Christ and the life he gave to us we should look at things in a new way and not hold on to the things which divide us. In his argument he mentions, with only a passion Paul can, that it's precisely because of the love he has for Jesus that he is able to live this new life.
So, what passions do you let drive you in your life? Mine, at least for now, are the teenagers I touch everyday in school. My hope is that through my actions and words, along with the knowledge I am Christian, they will see the Christ in me and understand it's the love that matters most.
That's what drives me.
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