In our generation it is almost possible to read a book without reading it.  With such easy access to information and opinion, if there is a book that is popular you will find a gluttony of reviews, excerpts and opinions of the book.  Subsequently, it becomes possible to talk about books you haven’t read.  For me, Crazy Love by Francis Chan (with Danae Yankoski) was such a book.  While many were talking and writing about the book, I was reading and listening to the views and reviews.  It was as if I had read it myself – that was until I actually read it.

I just finished reading Crazy Love and must say that the book more than met my expectation, especially chapter eight.  Crazy Love is a good book.  Chapter eight is clearly my favorite chapter.  The chapter is titled Profiles of the Obsessed.  Obsessed is defined as:  to have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic.  In the chapter, the authors give 14 characteristics of a person obsessed with Jesus.  While I won’t relate all 14 and thus make you think you can talk about the chapter without reading it, I will give you an example of the type of insights that continue to challenge me.  For example, the authors write:

A person who is obsessed with Jesus know that the sin of pride is always a battle.  Obsessed people know that you can never be humble enough and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Matt. 5:16).

also,

People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden.  Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Matt. 13:44; John 15:8).

The book has much to commend itself to us – chapter eight being my favorite with its lingering thoughts in my mind.  If you are among the few, the stubborn, or late like me then I would recommend you read it.  Nothing could be more worthy of our remembrance than the fact that God has loved us in Christ, and we are to respond to the His love with lives of faith and devotion.