Am I Crazy?

Am I crazy?  This is a question I sometimes find myself asking.  Am I crazy to believe that God exists? That He knows and cares for me? That I can have continual conversation with Him? That He answers prayers? That He satisfies my needs? That He sent His Son to die on the cross? That He loves me enough to shed His own blood for my ransom? That He is more than enough for me?


I can see how conventional wisdom would find these thoughts crazy.  The human in me cannot fathom how a Being with no beginning and no end created everything I am, everything I see, and everything I hope to be.  My mind cannot wrap itself around the concept of God, but my soul, the very core of who I am, believes in and needs this God more than my physical body needs its next breath.  This faith, this God, that can seem so foreign, even crazy to some, is the sole purpose of my existence.  


The idea that a Man that was born in this world, but was not of this world, came over 2,000 years ago strictly so He could die for our sins is beyond comprehension, and that is why it gets labeled as crazy.  Our minds simply cannot handle these truths.  The skeptics and nonbelievers label me as crazy, as a weak being needing a fairy tale story to use as a crutch to get through this rugged life simply because, without faith, it is nearly impossible to see the rationale behind the crazy love of Christ.  We find unconditional love to be a foreign concept, but Christ died to change that, to save us, and to allow us to live out a crazy life of faith, reliant on the One True God.


Verse:



God didn't send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn't send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center—Christ on the Cross—be trivialized into mere words. The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It's written, I'll turn conventional wisdom on its head, I'll expose so-called experts as crackpots. So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn't God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb—preaching, of all things!—to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.


~1 Corinthians 1:17-20 from The Message


Christ died for me, for us, and I long to spread that news to any and all.  I do not spread His Word, or write this blog for my own fame and reputation, but rather to show that this crazy concept of Christianity, is not a crazy concept at all.  It is a truer love than one can find anywhere else.  It is a relationship with the Creator of Heaven and of Earth.  It is a life of faith in things unseen, but belief in their reality nonetheless.  It is a chance at losing this life for one that is far greater than anything we could have ever planned.  My mission, my purpose, my aim, is to continue to serve Christ with all that I am.  Am I crazy?  Absolutely! I am crazy in love with the One who gives me reason to live.