For the past few weeks I have been leading this study from Francis Chan's book " Crazy Love". It has been interesting especially since this is my second time doing the study but we are now in chapter 8 and we are talking about obsessed people with God. It is a great chapter and very thought provoking but also a whole lot to swallow at the same time. Francis lists these different characteristics of being obsessed with God, well if that is what you want to call them; or maybe we can say different types of people who are obsessed with God. He talks about people who are lovers, risk takers, friends of all, crazy ones, the humble, servers, givers, sojourners, the engrossed, unguarded ones, the rooted, the dedicated, and sacrificers. I know that doesn't sound like people obsessed with God and maybe what you have to do is pick up this book and see for yourself. Chan talks about these people in their different lights but they all boil down to one thing; they are willing to do whatever it takes to love God obsessively. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to be obsessed with God. I mean these are not things you have to do to love Him; these are things you do because He loves you.
See it's not about us working to prove our love to Him, or trying really hard to show the world that we love Him. It is simply just loving Him and out of that love we develop these attitudes that the world sees as radical and crazy.
Loving God will make you so different from the world, people will know it, but not by the way we dress or how our hair is cut. It is in the way we love others and how we live our lives. (Oh by the way I am not talking about how morally good we live it. I mean it is a part but not to the point that we use our morality as superiority over everyone else.) Basically being truly in love with God is that God is not just number one but He is everything and at the center of everything.
We talk about how much we love God but there is always something else that is taking our time, someone else that is sharing that space with God. Yeah of course God is number one but is He the center of number 2, 3, 4, and so on, or is God all alone in the that first position. Also, even though He is first how much time do spend in that first spot or is it a passing by, or obligation that you do because He is first.
See when we truly focus on a real love for God we have to first see the real love He has for us. We have to understand that His love is not something we earned or something we worked hard at achieving. He just simply loved us. That is exaclty what we are supposed to do, just love.
You might ask how are we supposed to just love God, well it is in our love for others that do it. In how we live our lives in relationship to God, not in law to God. We are to love those who won't love us back; reflection of Jesus! We are to give to those who won't give back; reflection of Jesus! We are to serve those who won't serve us back; reflection of Jesus! We are to be to everybody else what we want from everybody else; reflection of Jesus! If you haven't got it yet we are just to be a reflection of Jesus!
If you truly reflect Christ then you are truly loving God!
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