Monday, October 5, 2009

Crazy Love Discipleship CLass

Chapter 3 is the title chapter, "Crazy Love".  In this chapter we were faced with the question of: Do we really know Gods love in our heart or just in our head? We remembered Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, crying out to his father with such emotion that His sweat was like great drops of blood, "please father if there's any other way to save humanity, let this burden pass from me". We can only imagine the suffering Jesus and His Father endured as Jesus took on our sin and represented before His Father, Holy God, what God detests to the point He can't even look upon. All for the love of me and you. We came to understand that the love between parent and child is only a small echo of Gods great love for us. Why is it then do we have such a hard time even fitting God into our day? God doesn't need us, yet He still wants us. We desperately need God, but many times we don't want Him. Yet, in spite of our self centeredness, Gods one goal for us, is Himself. How could this be? Why would the creator of all that is, long so much for you and I? It doesn't make any sense, it's ridiculously insane, it's crazy... it's love.
The cross is not just a piece of jewelry and the Lords supper is not just something we do as Baptists. My prayer for you and I is that these will be constant reminders of Gods enormously compassionate love for us and that we respond with the intense, God honoring worship that Jesus deserves.

Jay      

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