Finally Read Crazy Love
For about two years now, I've been wanting to read the book, Crazy Love by Francis Chan. It has always been calling to me to discover. Thanks to Audible.com and by 1 hour a day commute to work, I was finally able to experience the book; not just read it, but listen to it read aloud by Francis Chan. I really enjoyed listening to the heart of the author, not as I thought it might be, but as it actually was.This was a good book, one of the most inward thinking and challenging books I've read in several years. It has probed me to think more carefully about the decisions that I make on a daily basis and how I interact with all people in my life. Not for the sake of being careful, but for the sake of Christ and His desires in and through my life. I cannot think of myself more highly than I ought, but rather think of the Sovereign God and His greatness over the earth and all living things and realize....if it wasn't for God the Father and Jesus Christ, his Son; I wouldn't be here, and I really wouldn't be here. My life is designed to live for God's Glory and to bring others to his Love. This life of sacrifice is somehow different than I thought it would, should be, and is more about living in obedience to my heavenly Father. My Father who desires the best for me, even when I don't and couldn't possibly understand. His thoughts and ways are otherworldly and I could't begin to wish to comprehend them. However, one thing I do know, is that He knows my heart, he knows my innermost thoughts, dreams, fears, worries, sins and still loves me unconditionally...still wants to use me for his glory...still wants to use me to connect others to him directly. And somehow I think that I'm supposed to live life in my own way with my own agenda? No, that can't be the truth, His truth is that He has called me to live a life in pursuit of him and inviting others to know him; even in my points of confusion and doubt, somehow God can still reach others through that confusion and doubt which then somehow encourages my faith and builds me up to be far stronger than I could ever be on my own.He is a great God, he's my God..MY God. I serve and live for an incredible lover of people of ME! He's given his only son to take and bear all of the sins and darkness and unrighteousness that belong to me and destroyed it by dying and burying all of those things then to raise in divine glory, defeating all of that nastiness and showing the true light and glory of the most high, most holy God.My my day today bless you Father, may I know you better today than I did yesterday, and may others see you through me. Use me today to bring someone closer to you.