"Lord, send me anywhere, only go with me.
Lay any burden on me, only sustain me.
Sever any tie but the tie that binds me to Thyself." -David Livingstone
Francis Chan wrote a book called Crazy Love that I read in two very short days and I am still digesting it. One thing that is really knocking my socks off and totally changing the way I think is when he was describing how he sold his nice house to move into a smaller one so he could give more of his money. Along with this book, in my Bible study, we are learning how obedience is costly. Now, in most books or conversations I've had where people describe sacrifices people have made, the author usually says something along the lines of, "Now I don't write this to say you should go out and sell all of your possessions (or whatever they did), but merely to inspire you to be thankful for what you have."....or something like that. But Chan is not like that. He said that we should do something crazy like sell our house, or whatever God was telling us to do, so that we might serve Him better. We can't be lukewarm Christians (there is a whole chapter on 'the profile of the lukewarm Christian'), but we must take the Bible seriously when it tells us to give up everything in order to be His disciple!! (Luke 14:33) We've got to be crazy!
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