“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21
It is said that if you want to get to know someone, listen carefully to what they mostly talk about. In Luke 6:45, Yeshua said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” In other words, whatever is in the heart of a person, it will, sooner or later, be revealed through the words which come out of their mouth. So, how can you tell what someone is passionate about? Listen to what they talk about. If they are passionate about football, basketball, cars, or gardening, art or books, to quote a phrase, they will ‘spill the beans’ or, effectively, confess it openly by how they passionately talk about it to anyone and everyone. Similarly, you will have a very clear indication as to what they are passionate about and centre their lives upon by watching what they spend both their time and their money on.
If someone is a “fan” of a sports personality or team, singer or musical artist, or, to expand that word to its full meaning, fanatical about a particular thing or person, they will spend their time and money pursuing after it – or them. People will spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars buying tickets for and traveling to events where the person or object of their attention will be performing. Others will spend what those without that mindset would consider exorbitant amounts of money collecting books, artwork, cars, even models or toys – all in line with their passion. Now – consider, who or what do you mainly talk about? Do you have that sort of passion in your relationship with and desire to follow closer with and be more intimately acquainted with Yeshua? If you do, it will be evident to all around you by what you talk mostly about, on what you spend your time and energy and where you invest your money.