chapter seven

So I have a confession. I love reading, and there can be times when I simply can't put a book down, I get hooked . But with christian books, I can struggle to keep going with them.

I started reading 'Crazy Love' by Francis Chan months ago. I read 3 chapters, then put the book down. A good few weeks later I realised that I still hadn't actually finished it. So I picked up where I left off and read another chapter. A couple more weeks passed, and by this point I've pretty much forgotten what I've read in those first 4 chapters. So I decided to just start over. (Don't get me wrong here, the book is class. It's not even a hard read, its super easy to get into. I was just being lazy!)

Anyways, I've just read chapter seven, and boy was it a good chapter. Some of the paragraphs I was left thinking 'wow'. So I thought I'd share with you all a few snippets with you...

'When you pray, your prayers are heard by the same God who answered Moses' prayer for water in the desert, the God who gave Abraham and his barren wife a son, and the God who made the slave Joseph second in power only to Pharaoh.'

'The place of trust isn't a comfortable place to be in; in fact, it flies in the face of everything we've been taught about proper planning. We like finding refuge in what we already have rather than what we hope God will provide. But when Christ says count the cost of following Him, it means we must surrender everything. It means being willing to go without an extra tunic or a place to sleep at night, and sometimes without knowing where we are going.'

'God wants us to trust in Him with abandon. He wants to show us how He works and cares for us. He wants to be our refuge.'

'...God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.'