Crazy Love

My friend pointed out to me today a excerpt from one of her favorite books, Crazy Love. It reads something like this: 1 Corinthians 13, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." This is a famous piece of scripture because it defines the very nature of God...Love. It defines who He is and everything He is about. It depicts His perfect love for each of us. So, the book tells the importance of the passage and then asks for the reader to replace Love with the reader's name. This author's point is to say that our attitude should be the very nature of Christ's ( Philippians 2:5 ). We can show the world, Godly love.

Try it:
(Your name) is patient. ( ) is kind. ( ) does not envy...etc.

I understand that we cannot perfect this ideal essence of Love, but we can try. We can try to love the world so much that we recognize the desperate need of God's children just as though He saw the suffering and did something about it all the way back in the book of Exodus. If God's spirit is in our very breath...in our souls...we have the ability to love as He does.

His love is something amazing. It is something that never gets old. It is perfect and all encompassing. It is pure compassion. It is "an ocean wide, even when it is a raging sea. " He's stays right there with us, where He says He belongs. And He says this, " it's okay, you can hold on to me. We are going to make it. Don't worry about the past because Love is an ocean wide enough to forget even when we think we can't. "

*quotes from Ocean Wide- the Afters

So, to the world, let's go show the love through our personal stories of the victory and love of Christ. Let us be patient and kind saying to others, it's okay, you can hold on to me until we pass through this tunnel. Let us continue to encourage and Love as though God does for us.

Now, that's CRAZY Love...