John 12:25-26 RECKLESS IN LOVE
"Anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal. If any of you wants to serve me, then follow me... The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me." (The Message)
I love Eugene Peterson's choice of words here in The Message: be "reckless in love". To follow Jesus, to serve the living God, is to be lavish in loving: to love the marginalized, the poor, the terrorists, those who believe differently from us, those who speak against us, those who have different skin tones from us. To love ALL, not just in word, but in ACTION! With this wild abandonment of loving, God will honor our actions. What high praise to be criticized for or described as being "reckless in love"! What am I doing to earn this label? What should I be doing? What is keeping me from it? What about you? What about our churches? How reckless is our love?
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