Extravagance

 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8

I love every thing about this passage. Today when I was reading it something new stuck out to me. Christ called us to love has he loved. He gave everything for us because he loved us so much. When I read this today I was struck again with the magnitude of what God did to save us from the depths of our darkness even while we didn’t understand how wrecked we were. How far he went, and transitively how far he calls us to go. 

If we are to be loving the way he loved we are called to go to people, to give up our desires and our comfort to care for our brothers and sisters. We are called to love people who HATE us. We are called to go and be with people who suck, are mean, don’t want us around and don’t have the slightest intrest in knowing the glory of the Lord. We are called to love people who hate us in the most over the top and extravagant ways. 

I love that. I’m so excited about it. I’m grateful that people have loved me in that way and that I am challenged to love people like that.