So I just read Chapter 7 in Crazy Love. It's about faith and giving. Chan talks about how believers aren't perfect and have to have faith in God (think Moses, David, Noah, etc.). I really like this line:
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to believers.
As Christians we can't play it safe. We should be sacrificing everything. Didn't Jesus do it for us?
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
-Philippians 2:6-11
Christ calls us to love on people. When we love on others, we are loving on Christ too. Giving is also another form of showing our faith through action. When we give, it shows our trust in Him. That He will provide for us.
God wants us to trust him with abandon.
He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
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