Zeal for Christ or Zeal for the World?

Zeal for Christ and His truth is not optional for the Christian. As those who have been redeemed by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to be a people who are "zealous of good works" (Titus 2:14). Zeal is a hot passion for Christ as opposed to a complacent lukewarmness for Him. When the Lord Jesus (early in His ministry) found the merchandisers and money changers in the Temple, He manifested a zeal (a holy and hot passion) for His House by making a whip of sorts and literally chasing these men and animals out of the Temple. After witnessing this incident, His Disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up" (John 2:17).
Is a holy and passionate zeal for Christ consuming your heart and life, or has rather a lukewarmness (or coolness) taken up residence there due to your preoccupation with so many things in this life that leave you little to no time for Jesus? Is spending time with Jesus in private worship been crowded out by forgetfulness, neglect, busyness, procrastination, or lack of desire? Has Christ become just a part of your life, or is He your life and reason for living every day? Is a former zeal for Christ now only a faint memory of the past? Now is the time to repent of that lukewarmness for Christ and to renew that first love you once had for Him, and to be consumed with a holy zeal for the Lord and His Word.