Dangerous Love, Adventurous Life!

The third verse of Hebrews 11 says that "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." Basically, this verse says that God, our incredible Creator, made the entire world, everything we see, all that is beautiful, majestic, huge and microscopic-all of it was made out of absolutely nothing! How incomprehensible is that?!

Obviously, this God we serve and worship is not a safe or definable God! Nothing else we see or know has the true ability to create...In other words, we have starting material, but God did not! God's love for us is ferocious in sacrifice and revolutionarily beautiful in resurrection. His life for us is an adventure, not boring. He is not a neat and tidy, organized church-pew God. Instead He is the Creator of thunderstorms and the Author of every moment of each of the billions of people He has on this earth right now... It is an unfathomable, immense, wonderful God who has written His name across the sky!

All this went through my head as I read the end of Hebrews 11, when the men and women of courageous faith are noted by the author. He describes their passion, their uninhibited faith, and their bold love as they trusted a victorious God. Even though none of these people ever received what God ultimately promised, they vigorously followed after the heart of GOD! It was so challenging to me to read about the depth of trust these people had and the way they completely abandoned what made sense and what the world defined as logical, and they ran after God. Some of these were chained, prisoned, put to death, stoned, or "sawed in two", but others became "powerful in battle", their "weakness turned to strength", they "shut the mouths of lions", "quenched the fury of the flames", conquered kingdoms, delivered justice, and "escaped the edge of the sword"!

These phrases are anything but boring! They are dangerous, adventurous, challenging, and wild! Behind these words were people who truly loved God with all of their heart, mind, soul, and strength. They left nothing out, and they held nothing back! And I believe that God will not hold back from them when they meet Him!!!! I realized that I need to stop going through my day like I serve a static God! He is always moving! He is always working! How wonderful would it be to be in sync with the movement of God, who created everything beautiful out of nothing at all!?

I want to stop holding back! I want to experience the dangerous love of Jesus each moment, and I want to be a part of His adventurous life! Only then will my life make Him attractive and refreshing to a world desperately searching for His revolutionary love!