Crazy Love

Have you read it? The book, Crazy Love, by Francis Chan. It will change your life, it will rock your world, it will challenge you, it will stretch you beyond your comfort zone. I am reading it for the second time. The first time I read it was probably about 5 years ago with a group of senior high girls in California. I read it, I highlighted, I underlined, I wrote in the margins.

When we decided to do summer small groups with our youth ministry this summer we put together a list and let the teens decide and to my great pleasure the girls decided on Crazy Love. I was excited to journey through this book with another group of girls. And again I got out my highlighter and my pen as I began and continued making more notes, more highlights, more underlines. I so love the way that God reveals himself to us.

I love looking back at past notes and seeing how different my life is now than it was then. I love seeing how different parts of passages impact me differently, and I love hearing from the teen girls how they have been impacted by the passages.

And it reminds me, it reminds me that I can read a passage of scripture more than once and learn from it. That God can use something to speak to me over and over again and meet with me where I am at that moment in time. Thankfully I am not spiritually at the same place that I was 5 years ago and yet God has more truths to speak to my heart.

I find the same thing true on Sunday mornings, there is not a sermon that I hear that does not have some truth I can actively apply to my life. Some truth that I feel God speaking directly to me. It is so important that we remain open and listening to God. The words he has are not always, "for others", they are most often directly for us.

I know what truths God has spoken to me this week, and I can't wait to hear from the teen girls how God has spoken to them, and how they have put that into practice.