Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

I read an interview with Pavel Brun, the artistic director of Celine Dion's New Day. He is forty-six years-old and he said he is still asking himself the question: "What am I going to do when I grow up?" I love that approach to life! It reminds me of Ashley Montague who said, "I want to die young at a ripe old age." Brun said something interesting. "I always keep myself under a big magnifying glass--I'm trying to question myself all the time." He tries to keep a pulse on passion. He said, "When the passion is going down it means that I am done." Over the years I've developed a test--call it the passion test. The best barometer of whether or not I'm where God wants me to be is when I'm gone from NCC for a week. I don't want to give the impression that I don't have bad days or need a weekend off here or there. But I can't wait to get back when I'm gone. This last weekend was no exception. I was only gone one Sunday, but I missed the church. That tells me I'm where I'm supposed to be. I think it's Psalm 37:4: "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." I think we've got to ask ourselves the question: is your heart in it? If your heart isn't into what you're doing you need to be doing something else. I think there are seasons where we need to do some tentmaking. But we ultimately need to get to a place where our gifts (what we do best) and passions (what we love most) overlap. That's the sweet spot.