Crazy Love

Nothing can separate you from God's love, absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough! Hannah Whitall Smith

I’ve been thinking about writing this devotional for a while.  There are several definitions to the word “crazy”.  There is the “mentally deranged” definition and the “unusual, bizarre, senseless and impractical” definition.  Then there is the “extremely enthusiastic” and the slang definition; “wonderful; excellent; and perfect”.   

So for today’s devotional I am going with the latter definition. God has a crazy love for human beings.  His love for us goes way beyond what we can really comprehend.  As I was pondering what I would write the following observations came to my mind.

God’s love knows no bounds.  His love for us is boundless.  He wants us to live in eternity with Him forever and in order to make that happen He will pursue us until this world as we know it comes to an end. 1 Timothy 1:14 (And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.)

God’s love isn’t selective.  He doesn’t choose one of us over another.  You are as important to Him as I am.  You are also as important to Him as every other person on earth.  There is no other individual who is more or less important than you are to Him.  2 Timothy (Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.)

God’s love happens whether we deserve it or not.  And we don’t deserve it.  Now that is   crazy love! 1 John 10 (In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved   us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.)

God loves us even when we don’t love Him.  How many times have we disobeyed Him and sinned; yet He still takes us back and offers redemption.  Ephesians 2:4-5 (But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved.)

God’s love sacrifices His only Son for us, so that our sin can be wiped away.  That is  the ultimate expression of crazy love.  1 John 4:9 (In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.)

So, if you are looking for crazy love, you don’t have to look any further.  You’re not going to find a more wonderful; excellent; and perfect love than our Heavenly Father’s.  This world is not going to give you the kind of crazy love God can.  Let go of the pursuit of perfect love in this world, and accept the perfect love of God.  Crazy love like no other!

   

Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, it is often hard for me to comprehend Your crazy love.  In the human sense, it just doesn’t make sense.  I often ask myself, “How can You love a sinner like me?” The answer is crazy love.  Love that doesn’t make sense, is incomprehensible, knows no bounds, given without deserving, sacrificial and loving as if I am the only one.  Thank You for Your crazy love for me.

      

Scripture: God’s Everlasting Love

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:31-39