by Doug Sharpe

I have always said that I am blessed to have discovered my life’s passion in Christ such a short time before discovering my life’s purpose.

My heart was transformed in an instant when I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour, I then learned I was valued by God, and that I was a new creation. Then boom, right after that, a seed of purpose was miraculously sown in me. So powerfully in fact that now, even the thought of denying it rings as impossible.

Something that marvels me too is that all these years later, it is getting more and more difficult to identify where my passion in Christ ends and my purpose in life begins.

Its all becoming so increasingly knit together in me. A massively motivating and impactful part of my life. Or maybe saying, it is my life now is a better representation of how I am experiencing this coming together of passion and purpose.

I hope you are tracking with me. Perhaps you understand what I’m trying to say because you feel it too?

The very thing that powers you to do what you do and what you do, occupies the same space in you.

Perhaps you are in full submission to Christ as the source of the Kingdom power you access to fulfill your purpose in life. Perhaps now you can’t even see the edges of where the passion and the purpose in your life stops and starts.

I pray this for you. I pray that you have these two things knit together in you and I do it because I tried to live the other way. I resisted allowing my passion for Jesus and my purpose in life to occupy the same place in my life.

There were times when I left my passion for Christ and my relationship with Jesus behind and charged out boldly alone into the future and my purpose.

Trust me, it never ended well. For me, or the other people around me.

So, I pray that your passion for Christ burns in your heart and that it will always fuel the engine of your purpose.

In that order.

Doug Sharpe