Passion for your name.

 Passion for Your Name

A Reflection on Psalm 69:9 and John 2:17

Passion for Your name—not a lukewarm, tepid flame,

But a fire that burns within my bones and drives me to proclaim

The worth, the beauty, the glory of the One who gave His life,

Who stepped into the chaos and the darkness and the strife.

For zeal for Your house has consumed me. (Psalm 69:9)

Your name—not a label or a distant, frozen word,

But the living, breathing presence of the One who has been heard.

When I speak it, demons tremble; when I whisper, fears take flight.

Your name is power, love, and healing; it is my day and night.

Passion—not a fleeting feeling, not a momentary high,

But a deep, abiding hunger that will never, ever die.

It drives me to my knees in prayer, it lifts my hands in praise,

It gives me boldness to speak truth through all my earthly days.

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.” (John 2:17)

I cannot be silent about the name that saved my soul.

I cannot hide the fire that makes my broken spirit whole.

Let others chase their golden calves, their passions made of dust.

My passion is the name of Jesus—in Him I place my trust.

So I will speak it on the mountain, I will whisper in the street.

I will sing it in the valley where the shadow and defeat

Have tried to steal my song away. But passion rises high.

Your name, Lord Jesus, is my passion—until the day I die.

Amen.