Passionate or Indifferent?

Last night was one of those nights where I woke up, wide awake at 1 AM, wanting desperately to go back to sleep. After tossing and turning for a while I decided to get up and pray and listen to what God might want to be speaking to me about. This thought kept coming to me: Are we indifferent?

Here is what dictionary.com has to say about the word “indifferent”:
1. without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
2. having no bias, prejudice, or preference; impartial; disinterested.
3. neither good nor bad in character or quality; average; routine: an indifferent specimen.
4. not particularly good, important, etc.; unremarkable; unnotable: an indifferent success; an indifferent performance.
5. of only moderate amount, extent, etc.
6. not making a difference, or mattering, one way or the other.
7. immaterial or unimportant.
8. not essential or obligatory, as an observance.
9. making no difference or distinction, as between persons or things.

I had to stop and think about what I felt like the Lord was speaking to me about. Have we become “indifferent”? Do we see our potential as the church? Do we see our selves as making a difference in our world?

There have been moments in my life where I am sure I have been indifferent. One thing I NEVER want to grow indifferent about is who Jesus is and what he has called us to do. Not sure about you, but I don’t want to live the type of life that is “without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic; having no bias; impartial; disinterested; average; routine; unremarkable; unnotable; not making a difference, or mattering, one way or the other; not essential; making no difference or distinction. That is not the summary of the life that I want to live. I don’t believe that should be the summary of the lives of people who are Christ followers.

What is an area that you have maybe grown indifferent, that needs to become a place of passion? What is something that used to stir you, but now it could come or go and wouldn’t really make a difference? If you have no vision for it, you will grow indifferent.

Be passionate, not indifferent!