My life is marked by two challenges:  Loving God with all I am and loving others like I am someone who loves God with all I am.  The words are short and the sentence simple.  Attempting the lifestyle proves why I am a man in need of a Savior and why I desperately
need the powerful Spirit of that very same Savior.

Many, I think, would quickly say, “I love God.”  Most, I would guess, would not be so bold to say, “I love God more than anything, even my own life.”  Yet this level of devotion is what the follower of Jesus is called to possess.  This sort of life can only be a distant dream unless the Christian will receive the reality that God so loved them that he gave everything…even his own life.  This is a very big thought, one I have yet to be able to squeeze into my head.

I am so very accomplished at caring for and providing for my needs, not so much that of my neighbor.  Why should I?  What have they done for me? Why should I suffer inconvenience for the sake of someone who has not even bothered to introduce them self?  Why can’t I just mind my own business, not hurt other people and go about life keeping my distance? 

“Crazy Dumb Love” is the answer.  My friends at Main Street are attempting to find and put to work just this sort of love this week.  May it be!