My son asked me to review his essay for his English class tonight. He was writing about love and the Shakespearean tale of Romeo and Juliet. His primary point is that love makes people do crazy things. This made me wonder, would we consider God’s love for us a crazy thing?Most of us have heard the definition of love in 1 Corinthians 13 (Love is patient, love is kind…) and the ever-familiar sports stadium placard citing John 3:16 (For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have eternal life.”
But what else does the Bible tell us about love, and God’s love for us?
Let’s look at 1 John 4:7-12 for one example:
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 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.
Well now THIS is some proof that God’s love for us is indeed a crazy thing. We learn that God IS love, AND again that God loves us so much that He sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Crazy!
Sean cited Steven Curtis Chapman’s song “Something Crazy” in his essay. The song details the lives of a few people who have done crazy things under the influence of God’s love. The refrain says it all nicely:
“And it’s crazy when love gets a hold of you.
And it’s crazy things that love will make you do
And it’s crazy but it’s true, you really don’t know love at allTil it’s making you do something crazy.”
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