This past summer I ventured out of the church I was raised in just because I wasn't getting spiritually fed. It had been this way for a LONG time and my relationship with God was suffering. So, a very good friend of mine and I started driving 45 mins to attend a nondenominational church. This caused a HUGE uproar at our home church but despite this, we kept going. I had one of the best summers of my life because of this church. Every sermon hit me like a rock and got me thinking until I came back the next week. But the sermon I remember the most was the one that questioned our motives in being a follower in Christ. One of the chapters I read in Crazy Love also questioned this.
God has this amazing and unrelenting love for us that we cannot even imagine. We can turn away from Him and He will always take us back...always. God doesn't need us but He wants us...He longs for us. So how deep is our love for Christ?? I really examined this when the pastor asked us in his sermon, "If there was no heaven and you received nothing for being a follower of God, would you still seek to know Him, live your life for Him, and love Him?" Wow. Never really thought of that before. The book says that so many people seek a relationship with God just because of what comes from it: eternal life, plans backed from the most powerful, etc.
I would like to say that, "yes! I would seek Him and receive nothing in return." Most of the time I can say that, but there are days that I am selfish. There are days that I go through a lot of suffering because I have taken up the cross and I just think what good is going to come from me being faithful. But mostly, I have realized that I need to learn to love God with all my heart, mind, and soul. Something that isn't going to happen over night, but is going to take a lifetime walking with Him.
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