How do you restore your passion? Connect with your CREATOR for it is never too late to fulfill your calling. Within each of us is a Divine Spark that is the source of light which is meant to shine forth unto all the world.
Do not accept an evil report but look to the promises found in FATHER’S Word toward you and trust IN HIM rather than the evil report of men and/or the adversary. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth. Do not grieve the HOLY SPIRIT for by THE SPIRIT will you fulfill your destiny. Paul gave us instruction concerning the Holy Spirit which is found in Ephesians chapter 4:
25 Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.
26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,
27 nor give place to the devil.
28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Paul provides us a list to refer to when assessing our current situation but we must be brutally honest with ourselves. Am I grieving the Holy Spirit in my daily walk or am I walking in Love.
Our age does not keep us from fulfilling our calling. Caleb is a perfect example. When he and Joshua first entered the Promised Land as spies, he was 40 years old. Yet due to the unbelief of the ten spies and the rest of Israel, Caleb’s inheritance was delayed for 45 years. Consider the words of Caleb in Joshua chapter 14:
6 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him: “You know the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh Barnea.
7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.
8 Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
9 So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’
10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
11 As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.
12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.”
What would you think if an 85 year-old man spoke these words today? I say let FATHER’S Will be done! It is never to late to fulfill your calling. Do not be dismayed for FATHER will sustain you just as HE sustained Caleb until he not only received his inheritance but enjoyed its fruit. We have a tendency to believe that we have wasted precious time and energy but FATHER uses each and every situation to promote Spiritual maturity in our life. Let your depression give way to expectation. Exchange your sadness for gladness and re-fresh yourself in that today is a new day and let the past be the past and do not bring it into the “now”.
Rejoice in THE LORD for HE is your strength. Seek HIS FACE and HE lovingly will respond and open the doors that will enable you to fulfill your calling. Let your passion be reignited for FATHER is the ONE WHO established your destiny, not man.