I'm fired up!

So I'm riding in this morning and I am listening to ESPN.  Suddenly a story just fires me up.  First, in a bad way, but then as I start to reflect on it more, it fires me up in a good way.  The story was related to one NFL players comments about Tim Tebow.  First, I must admit that I am a big fan of Tebow now that he doesn't play against my Gamecocks.  Anyway, I listened to the comments made about Tebow by another player, and I was fired up.  I began to think about why he was under attack for his faith.  Initially, I could feel myself getting angry as I thought about how many times people have complained, grumbled and spoke negatively about this young man.  He has never once stuck a microphone in his own face and demanded anyone write or record.  I thought to myself, he has never once said to anyone you have to be like me or love my God.  Then it happened!  Just as I could feel myself going in the wrong direction, it happened!  Suddenly, I got fired up in a good way.

With that one thought I realized that Tim Tebow never asked anyone to love his God.  He just simply loved God himself.  And he loved him so much that it pours out and pours into everything he does.  He doesn't come on TV and demand that anyone convert.  Instead, Tebow lives a life of such passion for God that it makes you want to know his God.  It makes you want to know the God he serves, the Christ he proclaims as Savior and the Spirit that brings him strength.  When he talks about giving honor to his Lord and Savior it makes you wonder why, and makes me want to know my God even more.

The more I thought about it, I got even more fired up about it all.  Not fired up because someone else was taking unnecessary pot shots at another human being.  Not fired up because it seems like faith, Christian faith, was under attack.  I was not fired up because it seemed like more of the same negativity was being spewed out over the airwaves.  Instead, I was fired up because someone had lived an example of a life spent giving praise and honor to the only wise God; the only God.  I was fired up because I realized that God wants the same of all of us and especially me.

I am fired up this morning because I know that God wants me to live a life that is so surrendered and so passionate for him that my love and praise pours in and out of everything that I say and do.  God wants my life to be so exciting and passionate that when people see me, they want to know my God!

I'm fired up this morning because I serve and awesome God who is worthy of praise and I hope you will want to know him b/c of the love you see in me, the grace and mercy that is shown to me and the truth of a life well lived.  I'm fired up and I hope that I will continue to be passionate about God so that others will see him and want to know him too!