Crazy Love

A month or two ago a friend of mine gave me this book by Francis Chan. See, we had just read the other book by him called "forgotten God" and I really wanted to ready Crazy love by him. I find him an amazing writer, and if you know anything of his childhood then you too would be impressed by his faith, granted, I find his little videos the go along with the books better, just because you can see how he feels about what he's talking about, you can see the emotion he puts into these books. However, it's cool to read them chapter by chapter, interrupting it into your own views, spending time thinking about it and about how it interferes with your life.

For example, and this is totally off topic, but I'm sitting here watching and episode of Bones, which I think is an amazing show despite the controversy in it, there's an episode, which a year ago a girl went missing, she was pregnant and the found her body washed up onto shore. Apparently the baby had been cut out of her stomach and replaced with a different one, one that died before. The whole underlie message for Temperance in this episode is a parent's love. They thought it was the husband who had done it but thanks to the evidence it wasn't, but Booth brings up the fact that he ran. He brings up the question "How do you cut yourself off from your family"…

Well what about Abraham? God commands Abraham to kill his own son. He doesn't, but he had the intention. He did not kill Isaac (sp?) Some people could argue that what he had was faith, not intention. Well think about this, if you have kids, if God came down and pointed at your child and asked you to do that, would you? God's messenger stopped Abraham, at the last second. What you learn from this is that when it comes to your children your love has to be absolute. The messenger represents goodness, what you know to be right; Argo you have to be open to what you know is true.

See how I interpreted this? Someone could interpret it different. If I didn't read the story myself, and just listened to someone else, there interpretation could have biased my interpretation.

Anyway, I'm reading this book, and already I can tell it's going to be great. He notes in the book "It may sound un-Christian to say that some mornings I don't feel like loving god, or I just forget to." Well it's true. Sometimes we wake up late, sometimes out hair doesn't turn out well, or we stub our toe on the table, we spill the coffee on our shirt or we simply are tired and we want to go back to the warm comfy bed. And we forget that we are lucky to WAKE UP every morning. In a house where we get coffee, that we have a table to stub our toe on, that we sleep in a place that's warm.

It's kind of selfish, we all our selfish. Which I just heard an interesting interpretation of this at a lock in I went to the other night. I agree though. Being selfish is what we know, it's one thing that just born into us. It's our biggest downfall. What about the kid's in Africa; with no clean water and with parent's dying from diseases we have cures for but they just can't afford it. We are LUCKY. We should be waking up every morning worshiping the God who gives us the warm bed to sleep in and praying for those who don't.

I wake up every day grumpy. When I should wake up every morning happy for being there, worshiping the one who allows me to be there. It's awesome, how God sent down his one and only son to die for our sins, and the only thing we have to do is believe in him to have eternal life. He did this huge unselfish thing, and many of us can't even wake up worshiping him because things aren't going well. God's love for his children is absolute, and we are his children.

It's true. God is crazy, all powerful love.

And that was only the first few pages of interpretation…