What’s Your Zeal About?

“Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you [from us], so that you may be zealous for them. It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always and not just when I am with you.” – Galatians 4:17-18

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best remembered for creating the character Sherlock Holmes.

Doyle had a longstanding interest in mystical subjects and became a zealous spiritualist later in life.

In 1916, at the height of the First World War, Doyle’s belief in psychic phenomena was strengthened by what he took to be the psychic abilities of his children’s nanny, Lily Symonds.

This and the constant drumbeat of wartime deaths inspired him with the idea that spiritualism was what he called a “New Revelation” sent by God to bring solace to the bereaved. He wrote a piece in Light magazine about his faith and began lecturing frequently on spiritualism. In 1918, he published his first spiritualist work, The New Revelation.
In 1922, Doyle wrote “The Coming of the Fairies” in which he described his beliefs about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits.
In 1920, Doyle travelled to Australia and New Zealand on spiritualist missionary work, and over the next several years, until his death, he continued his mission, giving talks about his spiritualist conviction in Britain, Europe, and the United States.

We should be zealous to know Jesus and to make Him known.

Thank Jesus Christ for the passion that He has for you and seek to be zealous only in knowing Christ deeper.

“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.” – Thomas Fuller

“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.” – Romans 12:11