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Maintaining Our Excitement About Jesus

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Maintaining Our Excitement About Jesus
I was so excited when I got to know Jesus Christ.
I was so excited when I gave Him my heart.
My excitement would come out of me
and would affect almost everyone and everything around me.
But somehow in the process of my growth I lost that excitement
and it seemed right in other people’s eyes.
They gave me the news that I would lose my excitement over Jesus
as I grew up in my faith.
They told me that I was in a honeymoon stage with Jesus
and it would pass away.
I remember resisting that thought with all my heart,
but somehow it still happened.
As I learned more about His ways, I became less excited about Him.
Is losing our excitement toward Jesus Christ what we call growth?
Nothing should ever steal or overshadow our excitement about Jesus Christ.
No depth of difficulties, no height of success, no fear, no joy,
no lack, no prosperity, no growth, no revelation,
no confusion should ever separate us from being excited
about Jesus Christ, our true excitement and passion.
We should not stop growing or stop being excited over other exciting things.
But we should always put Jesus first and never allow any excitement
to overshadow our excitement toward Jesus Himself.
Apostle Paul kept his excitement over Jesus Christ all his life,
and all his teachings and revelations were about Jesus Christ.
He never separated Jesus’ teachings from Jesus Himself,
and as he grew he became more excited about Jesus.
One of the reasons that we lose our excitement and passion toward Jesus
is that we teach about His ways more than about Jesus Himself.
Always put Him first, because He is the Alpha, He is the first,
and He should always be first in anything and everything.
Putting Him in second or third place is not a good idea at all.
Let Him be first in your life.
Seek to learn this lesson.
Let’s ask Him to teach us to always put Him first
and in this way maintain our excitement about Jesus.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.
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