Thoughts from "Crazy Love"

So I just got done reading the book "Crazy Love" written by Francis Chan. Wow, it will definitely take me a while to process through all the concepts that were discussed in this book. None of them were "new" ideas but the author was very point blank about them and didn't sugar coat anything, which is good because our culture in general loves to sugar coat everything and only look at things the way they want to.


**We are way too concerned with our to-do list, preoccupied by appointments, focused on family, thinking about your desires and needs. On the average day, we live caught up in ourselves. ON the average day, we don't consider God very much. On the average day, we forget that our life truly is a vapor. Instead we tend to live our lives as if it will go on forever.

**Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

**There was one whole chapter of looking at lukewarm people and how the Lord doesn't want us to be lukewarm. It was very descriptive and very intense.

**Most of our thoughts are centered on the money we want to make, the school we want to attend, the body we aspire to have, the spouse we want to marry, the kind of person we want to become...But the fact is that nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God; it's about eternity, and nothing compares with that. God is not someone who can be tacked on to our lives.

**Are you willing to say to God that He can have whatever He wants? Do you believe that wholehearted commitment to Him is more important than any other thing or person in your life? Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people He has made?

**What does running toward Christ and pursuing Love look life in your daily life?

**Are you ready and willing to make yourself nothing?

**True love requires sacrifice and our love is shown by how we live our lives. Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

**The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is how we spend ourselves.

**What are you doing in your life right now that truly relies on 100% faith.