Heart vs. Knowledge

It’s that time of year again, my fold up chair, cooler, and cow bell all stashed in the trunk of my car. Being a football mom is hard work with remembering practice every night, snacks for every game and of course trying to memorize all of the kids names and numbers. I’ve learned a lot in my career as a team mom but the greatest thing I have learned has nothing at all to do with football at all ..... it’s about ones heart. See having a passionate heart trumps all the knowledge in the world.

There are many kids that come out to the football field each week out of obligation because Mom and Dad wanna “start’em young” but then theres those few that come out because they genuinely love the sport. These kids do just about anything to make the play, they may don’t know the technical term for what they are doing but they know the end result and have a goal in mind.

The Lord speaks to us about passion and knowledge on many occasions in the word. /Yet, one of the most well know verses is in Matthew 22:37 “Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' This is the most important, the first on any list......”

See if it weren’t for David's passion, his faith, in the Lord do you really think he would have stepped up to fight Goliath? David was a shepherd and with all due respect I am pretty sure he never took “slay someone with a sling shot 101”. What David did have was a heart full of passion about what he was doing. He knew from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet that he had loved the Lord and that nobody not even an oversized warrior would stand in the way of him and the creator of all that is good! Often times we let things divert us from our passions. Thoughts of inadequacy, “not good enough”, I am not educated in that, all these are straight from the pit hell trying to derail you from the very thing you were created for. See when you stand firm in your passion and you serve out of love, you are a force to be reckoned with. There is nothing that will stop you not even the gnarliest linemen or the biggest warrior that will keep you from fulfilling your hearts desire.

So I challenge you daughters of the most high to live a life of passion not to walk a road where somewhere along the way your passion falls out of your pocket but to wear it proudly as “a seal upon your heart.”

Ashley Mcdougal
Ashley is the Children's pastor for 3N1 Church in Virginia. Her passion is to see the Church being Christ's Church consistently no matter where they are and of course Children!! For more info on 3N1 you can check out their website at http://3n1church.com.