It can be easy to forget to have compassion on people when you are passionate about the person. Let’s say I have a friend struggling with something and I’m passionate about seeing that person get healing….. But I allow my Passion to out way my compassion and before long my wanting to see healing comes off as pushed/rushed or even contradictory. We should instead remember that we aren’t the ones running their race. It’s important for us to continually do a self check and make yourself aware of your passion to compassion ratio. I found this out with personal experiences. I found myself wanting to be the get it done person. Which has a lot of positives but it also comes with negative attributes as well. Along the line of me wanting to see people healed from things whether it was spiritual, physical, or emotional… I gave them invisible time limits as to when I felt it should be done. I would expect their process to be faster than it was going and that made my Passion higher than my compassion towards them. I began getting harder on people and questioned; why are you still ”here” in this place of unrest. When in reality I myself was in a place of unrest because I forgot the biggest thing about following Christ, that His yoke is EASY. So if I’m finding my Passion towards the situation frustrating me, then I’ve forgotten to rest in Christ. Resting in His abilities to heal and not my own. Resting in His abilities to guide and not my own. Resting in His abilities to comfort and not my own. I had to put myself in a place of acceptance, acceptance that when the Holy Spirit convicted me on my Passion getting in His way that I could accept that and ask for forgiveness from the party involved and also Christ; remembering His ways are not MY ways.

Prayer:
God, I come before you with an open heart. I ask that you begin a process in my life that puts me in a place of remembrance. Remembering that your Grace and Mercy surpass my understanding and allow that to grow my compassion towards others. I surrender my life to you. In Jesus name. amen.