Crazy/Love Thoughts

I finished a book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan last week (started it on the way home from Hawaii). I meant to write a post about it then, but life has gotten in the way and I haven’t been able to until now. Anyway, it was a good book (check out the website here) and left me with two main thoughts (I am sure if you read it you would probably be hit with other points, but these two really struck a chord with my heart).

1. What would my life look like if tomorrow I decided I no longer believed in God? How would my life be different? Am I living my life in such a way that my belief in God is evident today? I probably wouldn’t go to church or tithe, but other than that, I think I would still be an honest person, trustworthy, generous, donate to charities, willing to help out friends (and strangers), moral, etc. I feel like I would still be a ‘good’ person, so other than not going to church for an hour a week or giving 10% of my money to church, would my life look drastically different? Am I doing enough to show my love for Christ today?!

2. Am I really loving? I mean I say I love love, but am I really living it? The author suggested that you replace your name in the 1 Corinthians 13 passage to (since that passage is telling us what love [as a verb] looks like). The passage reads –

(4) Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud (5) or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. (6) It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. (7) Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

If I were to replace my name with the mention of love, would I feel like I still lived up to loving love?

Carlee is patient and kind. Carlee is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. She does not demand her own way. She is not irritable, and she keeps no record of being wronged. She does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Carlee never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

I’d love to say that I am all of those attributes (and all the time would be great, huh), but I fall short time and time again. But hey, I guess there is always something to work towards, right?!