Emotionally involved with Jesus Christ.

An article written by a school psychologist who did his masters thesis on the stress experienced by teenagers participating in sports, concluded that teenage sports is often experienced like a religion. It is true that the passion for these games with cheerleaders stirring the crowd to an emotional frenzy seems like something so important that it involves matters of life and death!

Some of us continue to be emotionally involved with sports.  Others become emotionally involved with their profession, or politics or other causes in the same way.

And we rarely criticize emotional involvement, except when there is emotion with and about God and about our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Getting excited about sports is considered natural, but being emotionally involved with Jesus Christ is often considered unhealthy and fanatical.

Sports, business and politics need not be evil. But they are no gods nor are their happenings religious services. Rugby, soccer and cricket matches are no church services and cannot save your soul!

Better that you should engage in passionate worship of the God of the Bible. Better that you should become emotionally involved with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ suffered and died to pay the penalty for sin due to people like you and me.   When we see his love on the painful cross on Golgotha and hear his passion for us when he cried out “it is finished” and experienced his divine affection when we found ourselves saved from the power of sin and the daunting danger of judgment, we cannot do anything else but becoming emotionally involved with our Redeemer.

True faith is a matter of the heart. It involves your mind, your will and your emotions. It involves a total commitment to the Saviour and his Body, his people. We should turn to the unity, and common gratefulness for all he has done, sharing this commitment with other saved sinners – now called believers or called the church!

True worship of the true God involves our emotions. It makes us passionate and fuels the flame of love for the Lord in our lives.