A Crime of Dispassion

To be removed from passion, emotion or bias can be an admirable character trait. It paints a kind of "cool-hand Luke" image upon our imagination. Perhaps a 007 type of person.

However, tonight I am thinking that dispassion has robbed us, as a people, of many things that were rightfully ours. I believe that the apathy we see in a large percentage of individuals is because of a dispassionate Worldview. Freedom from passion has left us with a wavering mentality concerning life and its purpose.

One could correctly say that God is, in many ways, dispassionate. He is not a respecter of persons. (Acts 10:34) He is not one who favors or discriminates.
The truth of the Word of God is unwavering and unchangeable. It is objective in the sense that its object is, in one word, righteousness, or in several words, love, justice, grace, mercy, and sovereignty.

Yet, God is passionate. He has displayed His passion for all the worlds to see during His life, death, and resurrection as the God-man here on earth. For one to suffer so greatly, so intensely, and yet with a purpose of freeing those who hate him, required passion. Yes, God is passionate in His desire that mankind come unto Him.

We can participate in His passion. We can experience the joy of walking with Him. We can feel the burden for the souls of men. We can be moved with compassion for the needs of others. These are the things that bring living to life!

Yet, apathy breeds ignorance of such passion. We miss out on the life God has for us as we rot in our apathy.

Come alive, come away. Come unto Him, and out of dispassion.