You are crazy

It’s funny how much I hear that phrase. I joke about it with the people around me, my family, my friends and even people that don’t know me. I actually don’t mind being called crazy and recently I have been thinking a lot about this in relation to faith. More than once I have heard someone tell me that I’m crazy for believing that or I don’t have a clue what I’m getting into.

As a Christian culture it seems like we don’t believe anything crazy. Somewhere along the line we decided that crazy wasn’t ok anymore. We had to fit into this stream where all the fish are the same. But I think we are mistaken. God doesn’t want a bunch of cookie cutter Christians.

In Revelation 3:16 we are told that:

“So, because you are lukewarm–neither hot nor cold–I am about to spit you out of my mouth”

God wants us to chose a side and I believe that this means we have to become crazy. So what exactly does that mean for us? It means that we believe in the God who does miracles. We believe that HE is in control. That HE is love and loves EVERYONE and wants for all to be saved. We have to be willing to believe that with God we CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS.

But belief is not where it stops. We have to actually DO something. This means that if we want to do something that will glorify God, maybe something like feeding a whole family or sending a card to someone, we don’t need to wait for God to say yes or no, we need to do it. We have to being living like we are crazy and take risk. We have to be willing to love those who no one else does, with no return for ourselves. We have to begin to do things because we can, not because we get something. If we were to become a people that give to others that could never ever give back to us, then maybe we would all become crazy.

Dare to be different. Dare to do something so crazy that the world turns their head. If we begin to do this, we will begin to see a change in our world.

On another note, Dive Deep Ministries (the organization I am blessed to lead) is getting ready to launch into a year that is all about giving ourselves away in a bigger way that we are able to and more than we can get in return. I would love for you guys to check it out because it is going to be awesome. But hey, why wait?

“Risk more than others think is safe, Care more than others think is wise, Dream more than others think is practical, Expect more than others think is possible.

Dive Deep,

Kyle