{"id":10155,"date":"2019-05-21T05:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10155"},"modified":"2019-05-21T05:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T10:52:54","slug":"the-cray-cray-love-of-parents-and-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=10155","title":{"rendered":"The Cray Cray Love of Parents and God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m watching you, moms and dads. You\u2019re the ones who continue to post photos and videos of your child or children receiving awards for their intellectual achievements and athletic abilities (even though some of you admitted that your child\u2019s team never won a game \u2013 they still received an award). You are the ones standing on your tippy toes, on the floor at the front of the crowd, capturing it all on video or camera. You are leaning in and shushing anyone around you who is taking away from their moment on the stage. Your child crosses the stage to receive their diploma or award and your hands are waving wildly and you are screaming out their name with pride and joy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t give up and you don\u2019t even consider yourself looking a little cray cray. Your eyes are locked on your child and there is nothing that will stand in your way. You are so crazy proud and crazy in love with this child \u2013 you just can\u2019t help yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you think you have an indescribable love for your kids — it no way compares to how wild God is for us. He is on the front row and if He had a camera, He\u2019d be taking pictures and videos of you, too. Here\u2019s why I know that\u2019s true. God is among us. He\u2019s everywhere, but right here close to us. Don\u2019t miss it. He wrote all about His love in His Holy Word and His wild display of affection for us is written there — living and active. “He appeared to me saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness, I have drawn you. (Jeremiah 31:3) He\u2019s eager to be near to us when we believe no one else wants to be. (Psalm 34:18) He draws near to us and sticks with us as we go through our day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jesus\u2019 love looks crazy. What did people say of Jesus as he showed crazy love and said He was God? \u201cHe\u2019s crazy, a maniac — out of his head completely. Why bother listening to him?\u201d (John 10:20) He was so crazy that He gave up His own life for you and me. Jesus\u2019 crazy love is still after you and me. It doesn\u2019t care about mess-ups and our past. His love is way beyond you moms and dads who are so crazy in love with your kiddos. He is waving at you, desiring you and moving with you throughout your day of joys and sorrows, comforts and discomforts, acceptance and rejection, wins and defeats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your kids may get a little embarrassed with your audacious display of affection and may even look away thinking \u201cMaybe if I don\u2019t look at them, no one will know I\u2019m with them!\u201d But, DON\u2019T be embarrassed as God\u2019s kids. Let\u2019s embrace His crazy love and not look the other way. Let\u2019s embrace His pursuit and His affection. Jesus is crazy about you. Just know that. Receive that. Sit in that. Dwell in that. Bathe in that \u2013 and receive His indescribable, unrelenting, reckless, crazy love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God
\nOh, it chases me down, fights ’til I’m found, leaves the ninety-nine.
\nI couldn’t earn it, and I don’t deserve it, still, You give Yourself away
\nOh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m watching you, moms and dads. You\u2019re the ones who continue to post photos and videos of your child or children receiving awards for their intellectual achievements and athletic abilities (even though some of you admitted that your child\u2019s team never won a game \u2013 they still received an award). You are the ones standing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13200,13201],"tags":[13205,13204,13202,13209,13206,13207,13203,1653,13208,5024,2566,4452,2131,10736],"class_list":["post-10155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crazy","category-reckless-love","tag-athletic-abilities","tag-award","tag-cray-cray","tag-crazy-love","tag-diploma","tag-indescribable-love","tag-intellectual-achievements","tag-jeremiah-313","tag-john-1020","tag-love-of-god","tag-parents","tag-pride-and-joy","tag-psalm-119103","tag-relentless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10159,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions\/10159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}