Passion

June 11th, 2009 omo

Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after You

To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your dicsiple in your truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you, my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you

And I do run, all right. I think one thing I learned well as a follow of Christ is the various ways and modes that people have pursued after Him. But why am I chasing after Yoko Kanno’s masterpiece recital? It is good, passionate, and perhaps even magnificent. Yet until I know what is empty, pale and poor by the best of the world’s standards, I probably won’t have a clue just how much more it is to run after somebody like Jesus.

Indeed, for One who so love the world to give His Son’s life, there is so much good left that I can’t help but to love it as He does. But I’m far and away in terms of doing it in the right way, with style, see. And despite the gibberish I’m sure Kanno is blessed by the same Creator as the One, being a creator herself.

If there’s a point to this post, it’s about giving thanks. That He has blessed so many with so much through each one of us. It’s easy to look at God and point to the bad stuff that’s happening, but that seems like an unfair thing to do when we live on this good o’ watery dustball, taking all that for granted.

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