Crazy
Extravagant Love
I
listened to my friend speak of his neighbor and how this young man owed a debt
he could not pay and was far behind in his original commitment to pay in a
timely manner.
The
young man told my neighbor he wanted to hide and to ignore the problem but
instead he came to the one he owed the debt and something he didn’t expect
happened, something ridiculous—he found crazy extravagant love.
“Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly,
love
extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 Message
Trusting in God gives
us courage to be consistent and constant in obeying Him no matter what our circumstances
are or how our minds are in conflict.
Hope holds us to
the course to set sail against all tides of emotions which wash over us and say
turn around, jump ship, turn back!
Love, extravagant
love—there is nothing in this world like it. It goes beyond all human reason
and cannot to be touched or matched in the manner in which it will reconcile
people to God.
Nothing can touch extravagant love— it rocks
the world and it boggles people’s minds. It’s unexpected, undeserved and God
is in it all the way.
My friend’s neighbor had been living in a love-drought
for some time. He knew he didn’t deserve mercy. It was the last thing he
expected.
God’s
formula of trust plus hope plus love began to work in this young man. Trust set
him in motion to try, hope expanded his horizon to take the next step and love-crazy
extravagant love, spread deep roots in his heart and a new found faith in God.
There
is a love drought going on in our world today and we’ve got the water. Let us
be willing to be ridiculous and determined to love with crazy extravagant love.
“Many things are possible for the person who
has hope. Even more possible for the person who has faith. And still more
possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible with
all three.” Brother Lawrence
“Crazy
Extravagant Love” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© June 27, 2013
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