I have happened upon a revelation – from God, of course. 
Once upon a time, I remember being uneasy when some people would mention God in every other sentence. “God is doing that…” “God is doing this…” “Did you hear that God…” “God has been so good to me…my family!”
I know why now.
I am now one of these “some people.” Or I wish to be more of one. God is doing much in my life now. It is a lot of heartache and pain, but I know God’s immense, beautiful, shockingly gorgeous glory will burst through…somehow. All I can do now is glorify Him through this, and wait for Him to bring me in on it.
But I believe God has shown me something this morning while reading in John Piper’s “Don’t Waste Your Life” – a part of my dedicated time to my Lord. Otherwise known as devotions. 
As I read the sentence “It will not do, in this day of pluralism, to talk about the glory of God in vague ways,” I realized something – and I know it to be true, because once upon a time it was me.
Are you ready for this?
Here it is: the reason so many people are so uncomfortable with an “extreme” Christian, an all-for-God Christian, is because they’re afraid to become the same way. And the reason for that fear is yet another fear: the fear of having to release the love of material, personal, earthly possessions, and people surrounding them in their lives.
The fear that to be so lost in God will mean that they must lose their most beloved trinkets or relationships.
The fear that God will require them to give these things up so that He can make them whole, complete them with Himself instead of their need to fill their emptiness with corruptible things and fallible human companions.
The fear that this new person, if they allow Christ to fill that void, will be so…Christian that their friends and family will shy away, will abandon them and reject them.
Well…I like being extreme. I want more of it! I know that this empty part of me can and will only, ever be filled by God and whom- or whatever He wants it to be filled with.
Let me venture out on a limb to challenge you now. If you need to be filled, to have God make Himself the extreme, hardcore center of your entire life…you have to make the first move. It’s on your shoulders. You have to put forth and beg for Him to forgive you, to heal you, to fill you and complete you. You have to be the one to forget all else in your mortal world, and let yourself be before Him, only Him, and as utterly and excruciatingly vulnerable as only a human creation before the awesome and powerful and majestic and kingly God can be.
God owes you nothing, but you owe Him everything, and that should terrify you as nothing in this world does. You were made specifically for the glory of God, of Christ Jesus, of the Holy Spirit. That should humble you incredibly.
But God will not obligate you. You are a free-willed child of the living God. He won’t force you to want Him.
That’s your call.
