Crazy Love
Jeremiah 31-32; 1 John 4
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.”
1 John 4:10-13
Just as God is the best definition of what love looks like, it is the presence of his love in our lives through the person of the Holy Spirit that is the best testimony/apologetic evidencing our salvation. God’s love is sacrificial, covenant love. When his love fills our lives, we, too, live with sacrificial, covenant love.
Where do we see that quality of love in our relationships?
In a generation of increasing self-indulgence, this kind of sacrificial, covenant love will stand out like a light in the darkness. Some have called this “crazy love”, love that doesn’t make sense in a world of reciprocity and revenge.
Do we know that this love indwells us?
Do others?
“Lord Jesus, love through me with your “crazy” love, for your glory.”