The Chase

there is a sense of purpose in all these...

This morning as I find myself looking towards God and all that He has brought me through, I decided to spend some time in worship and founded myself thinking about God's love for us. I started preaching to the mirror... and before me was a man that is in need of the reminder that God loves and is in ever pursuit of him.

There is a point where God pursues us with everything he has just to get our attention but He also pursues us until the day we die simply also to show us the way. I am reminded that God is not concern so much about how we adhere to the commands of the law but more importantly for us to know how much He loves us.

Even as I reflect on myself and the way I pursue relationships in my life, I begin to think back about times I would do crazy things for love. I would go beyond what I never thought I would do for love. I would wait for something that I have no certainty for, even if it were to hurt me in the end, I would wait, serve and love the person the very best I can. Even when people would tell me how I am wasting so much on my efforts on something that has no guarantee, I did it anyway. Not because it did not make sense to me about the possibility of things going against my hopes, but it is the joy and wishful thinking that my actions would bring comfort and hopefully love to the person.

Years have passed... countless of heartbreaking seasons... and yet I am still figuring out why I do the things that I do. Because by fact and reason, I am very aware of the things that are happening around me and yet I still do it. Am I desperate? Am I so lonely that I would do things blindly? Even in pain I would still show love and give in to the embrace, even if the person would not return that love.

Jesus pursued me for years and He has continued to pursue me still. There have been thousands to millions of heartbreaking incidents that He has encountered from my adulterous heart, where I placed my love for Him to something else, or someone else.

Yet He still pursues me... His love endures and He strives as a ceaseless chaser, going after me wherever I go. He will not grow tired even in His brokenheartedness, and hopes for my return.

I may do it out of stupidity and insecurity or whatever is it that drives me to pursue and love someone who may never love me back in return... but Jesus does it too, He does it to all of us, even if we have made our minds to be eternally separated from Him