You grow up and a very common question you get is, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” Or “What are you passionate about?”
Throughout my childhood, I’ve had many desires and aspirations to be several different things, but my purpose has always been the same.
A quote from one of my favorite pastors to listen to is, “you can’t have a passion without a purpose.” This was from Steven Furtick in his sermon, “Put Your Passion in its Place”.
My purpose for my wants and desires in life has always been constant: to glorify God in whatever I do while making disciples of all nations.
Throughout middle school and high school I saw a pain. Especially my senior year of highschool, I started seeing something that I just wasn’t okay with and this started to light a fire in me and reveal what my future could very well possibly look like.
In elementary school I wanted to be an architect, because I liked building things and I saw the money behind it.
Middle school I changed my mind and decided I wanted to be a football coach. I knew it was less money but I would actually enjoy what I was doing instead of worrying about the money.
Up until junior year I wanted to be a football coach. My senior year sparked a passion that I knew about but didn’t fully understand. Because I didn’t exactly know the full aspect of it, I decided to join the World Race to see what else God might have in store for me and to take some more time to pray and ask God to reveal more of that passion inside of me.
It now being month 3, there is so many ideas of things I want to do in my life. Adventures I could go on, journeys to live out, and experiences that I don’t want to miss out on. My purpose is still the same as always, but my passion is different.
That pain I talked about earlier is what sparked it. Senior year I was surrounded by lost people at my school. People that would party all the time and think that they can live through highschool and college partying, then when they grow up and settle down, that’s when they will start the whole “Jesus thing”.
“Christianity is boring,” they would say.
“I want to have fun, not pray and go to church all the time.”
Christianity is so much more than church and praying all the time.
Another pain I saw amongst the youth in my church is leadership. We as millennials are tired of sitting on the sidelines of ministry, but we just don’t know how to lead because we have looked to our pastors to do all the leading for us. The youth needs to be empowered to step out in faith and lead themselves, and I love that about my youth at Elife. I think my youth leaders and pastors are doing an amazing job at empowering the youth to do more than sit down at church and listen to a message. I want to be apart of that and empower high schoolers to lead and step out in leadership.
My challenge to you: get your passion back. You may have a passion but you lost it. Get it back! Find your passion and live it out. Don’t fall into the normal 9-5 hating every single hour of it.
Your passion is waiting for you.
