Extravagant Living

Now that summer and half of fall has passed I thought it was time to return to my blog. How I've missed just dumping the words floating through my brain down for you to read. I know it can be scary at times for you but trust me, you will be just fine! :)

So, today I am reading Ephesians chapter 5 in The Message and before I could get out of the first 3 verses I get stuck on this: His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

That is incredibly powerful. God didn't love cautiously but EXTRAVANGANTLY. So I had to look up the meaning of the word - extravagant = unrestrained, excessive, exceeding the limits of reason. It's hard to even begin to attempt to understand the depth of the word extravagant in relationship to God's love for us. This verse starts off with "Be imitators of God". (NKJV) So, God is calling me to be like Him so that means I cannot be cautious with the love I give but I am to give it without restraint, excessively, exceeding the limits of MY own reasoning. That is an extremely challenging thought - but yet a life motivating way to live. Will you get hurt loving this way, oh yea, but is it worth it, oh yea! Live life as Christ lived it - there will be pain, there will be joy, there will be trials, there will be triumphs - but at least when it's all said and done you can say you really lived life to the fullest because you LIVED LIFE EXTRAVANGANTLY - just like Jesus. This is such a deep thought that can't just be meditated on today only because it must be a way to live life daily. It involves change and that change is within us....wow! Too bad change wasn't as easy as taking one outfit off and putting on another! Of course, my bank account couldn't support that habit!

Okay - so, now I am ready to get ready for the day, head to Starbucks with a gift card I got that someone with an extravangant love for me (well, I hope so, at least...lol!) gave to me and finish my stinkin' yard that I'm soooo not gifted at working at but - I will do it with extravagant love and pray that the plants I plant will live and not die!!