What is your passion?
I have always read this as just a sermon about abstinence. It has always been close to my heart. Not because I believe in waiting till marriage, but also not because I do not. But the more i read this, the more I see so many different things from it. I think if you read things in different points of your life, you interpret it differently. Weather you see it as a message to stay true to God, or to yourself, or you see it as a message to find who you truly are. Either way, Staying true to yourself, is all that matters, and all that God wants from us. and that is what this is about. At this point in my life, I see this as a wake-up call. Now is the time to experience what I am passionate about. To experience what my purpose is in life.
what do i want to tell? or better yet, what do i have to offer teen girls who are being faced with a very adult choice of should I or shouldn't I have sex? I started thinking about the woman in the psalm of solomon.
Who like many in the bible is unnamed. she is called only Shulamite woman. which basically tells us her region of origin. We don't know her name, but we do know, that she knows who she is, and that she is not ashamed of who she is, the shulamite woman not only knows who's she is, she knows what he wants! She knows what her passion is, and she goes after it. She loves who she is, and she does not care what anybody thinks of her. Because she is strong within herself. She has self love, and self esteem. She is in love with a man, and she wants that man, but she knows and loves, who she is outside of her love for that man. That is SUCH an important point.
So many of us live our lives believing that life will be better once we get a husband, or a wife, or once we make money or drive a fancy car, or buy a house. It is no different in high-school. A lot of girls think that everything will be better once that cute boy asks them out, or they get invited to the cool party, or they get elected homecoming queen-or, once they have sex.
SOOO many of us make loving ourselves dependent of something outside of ourselves. So many of us make being complete, dependent on being with somebody else, and being fulfilled depending on accomplishment.
But it is not someone else's job to make us happy. It is YOUR JOB, TO MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY! and to know who you are. If you do not know yourself, or love yourself, how can you expect someone else too?
God wants us to know and love ourselves, he also wants us too know our purpose our passion. Those two things are connected. You can not find your passion, if you do not know who you are.
Your passion is a part of who you already are. But to know it, you must know yourself. Passion is not sex and romance. Passion, is what you poor into creating a life for yourself that has meaning and purpose.
So, I ask you, Especially all you girls out there, what have you dreamt about doing? what is that thing that you have always wanted to do?
I hate to say it, but as a young woman, it is very easy to get side tracked from discovering your passion. There are actually more things to side track you, and not much to inspire you.
Sex can side track you, A relationship with the wrong boy can side track you, an unexpected pregnancy can side track you.
But remember the Shulamite woman. Remember what she teaches us. We can not share our passion with others until we find it within ourselves.
Whatever your passion is, nows the time to experience it.
Whatever your purpose is, nows the time to discover it.
Whatever you need, now is the time to pursue it.
now is the time to accomplish it, NOW! RIGHT NOW!
Your passion is that thing, you love. that thing you would give ANYTHING to do, to be. What you are waiting for, is already inside of you.
God has already equipped us with everything we need to live full and rich lives. It is our responsibility to make that life happen. To make our dreams happen, to find our passion- and pursue it.
