Passionately holy.

How many passionately holy things have you ever seen? I have seen plenty of passionate things, and I have seen holy things, but they seem to be fewer. The Cross comes to mind. Look at how The Lord has created us to have babies. It's filled with passion, but we have made it very unholy for the most part. Not that we are supposed to see it, but all that we see of it, is almost always unholy. It's filled with passion, but we've made it into something that is not holy. And so many other things follow suit.
I am really into movies. The closest thing I've seen to a holy and passionate movie is Facing The Giants or Fireproof, but Amazing Grace, Ultimate Gift, Chariots of Fire and especially The Hiding Place is the very best we've had to offer as a Church. The Passion, from Mel Gibson comes close, but has so much that isn't holy in it, I just can't even recommend it, and would instead have people see Matthew or John as far as "passion" movies go. Passion (from the Ancient Greek verb πάσχω (paskho) meaning to suffer) is a term applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Looking over the further definitions of passion below I was confused because of the "real" meaning of the word from its origin; To suffer. Then my wife said I can imagine someone doing that about music, loving it so much that they're willing to suffer to make it happen. So that's where passion can come into music, and if we've heard good music, there's passion behind it.
Most movies are very hard to make, it often takes passion to see it through to the end. The greatest of athletes must have intense passion for what they do. Christ must have had the most incredible passion to have suffered greater than any man ever will for anything, but He suffered for us, He was that passionate about saving us, He literally gave everything. In fact, He gave more than we ever could. He, being God, became a man. He left His heavenly kingdom to come down and live to show us how we should live, and then suffer and die the most horrible death imaginable, the horror and cruelty He suffered, the mocking & beatings. Being left on the cross with everyone having deserting Him, and then to have God leave Him at that last moment; "Why have You forsaken Me?" No one has ever, or will ever be as passionate about anything as he was, and is, about us.
But what if we were to do things that are only holy passionate? What if I only spoke with holiness and passion? I have spoken that way, but what if I only spoke that way, about everything? If I get to produce movies like I've always dreamed of, what if I only produced holy and passionate movies, what would that even look like? A Star Wars or Casablanca that's saved?
Eric Liddell's story, told partly in Chariots of Fire, would be an example of someone who ran with passion. It's funny, as he really gets going when he ran, his head fly's back and he seems to be running with reckless abandon. Maybe that's how we should run.

"Run and not grow weary, walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31


"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, . . . honest, . . . just, . . . pure, . . . lovely, . . . of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." (Philippians 4:8)
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A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
Ardent love.
Strong sexual desire; lust.
The object of such love or desire.
Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
The object of such enthusiasm: Soccer is her passion.
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger: He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
Passion
The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.
Archaic. Martyrdom.
Archaic. Passivity.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin passiō, passiōn-, sufferings of Jesus or a martyr, from Late Latin, physical suffering, martyrdom, sinful desire, from Latin, an undergoing, from passus, past participle of patī, to suffer.]

SYNONYMS passion, fervor, fire, zeal, ardor. These nouns denote powerful, intense emotion. Passion is a deep, overwhelming emotion: "There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy" (Richard Brinsley Sheridan). Fervor is great warmth and intensity of feeling: "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal" (William James). Fire is burning passion: "In our youth our hearts were touched with fire" (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.). Zeal is strong, enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance: "Laurie [resolved], with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for ... women with artistic tendencies" (Louisa May Alcott). Ardor is fiery intensity of feeling: "the furious ardor of my zeal repressed" (Charles Churchill).