What are you "passionate" about?

When people mention “passion”, they might think of 2 love birds, deep in love, “sucking face” in a park.
The actual meaning of “passion” is “intense suffering”.
That is why Mel Gibson named his movie “The PASSION of the Christ”.
When my students say they are “passionate about soccer”, aren’t they really saying, “I am willing to make my family, friends and grades suffer for my deep dedication and love of soccer”?
So, what are you passionate about?
Wouldn’t it make sense to be passionate about Christ if He was so passionate for you that He was willing to leave His glory in heaven, live life as a man for 33 years, die the most miserable death for your sins that you might be reconciled to God and then rise again from the dead to prove that He had indeed made full payment for our sin?!
Now THAT is something worth being passionate about!!!
“For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.” (Romans 7:5)
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires,” (Galatians 5:24)
“…not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;” (1 Thessalonians 4:5)
(Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin passion-, passio suffering, being acted upon, from Latin pati to suffer 1 often capitalized a : the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death b : an oratorio based on a gospel narrative of the Passion.)