Pursuit=Desire in Action

It's amazing to me how loving God is that He would intentionally pursue us. I mean, it seems like that wouldn't be high on His priority list. But it's the highest thing to Him. His relationship to us is the most important thing. He is constantly chasing after us because of His love and mercy for us. He can't help it because God is love. It's His nature to pursue us, chase after us. Hello, He laid His life down just so we could have a relationship with Him. I'm pretty sure that makes us His top priority and object of affection.

I have received so much encouragement from so many of you throughout this journey. It's been amazing. I have felt pursued. If I am being honest, I don't always see God behind that encouragement. Not because of any of you, but because, for some reason, I am blinded to the idea that God actually cares. I don't always feel God pursuing me through your encouraging words and that is something that He is really dealing with me about.  There are certain times when I really know, without a shadow of a doubt, that God is pursuing me and is really trying His hardest to make sure that I hear Him. Yesterday was one of those days for me. It's like I was the only one on the planet that He cared about! It was just one thing after another yesterday. Everything I needed to hear, everyone that I needed to call, called. I was able to walk around all day by myself. He not only talked to me, He showed me, physically that He was pursuing me. I knew that God was focused on me.

You may ask, why is that such a big deal? Um...let's see...He's only the Creator of the universe, the Beginning and the End, the only one that can heal me...shall I go on? Yeah, it's a big deal when He pursues me. I feel like when I was dating Chad. I craved his pursuit. I wanted him to chase after me. I wanted to see what he desired for me in action, not just words. That's what I have wanted from God. I not only want Him to talk to me, but I want to see that His desire for me is to be healed. Not just by reading His Word, but His Word actually being living and active in me. Where my physical body actually manifest what He is saying should be. Powerful. As we have been completely submitting ourselves to Him in this process, He is showing us how to conform to His image and as we do that we are able to see His desire in action, His purpose.

Romans 8:28, " And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose (desire in action)." God works for the good of those who first love Him and secondly have been called according to HIS desire in action (purpose), NOT OURS. Do you get it? It's all about Him. It's all about us loving Him enough to conform to Him.

Psalm 37:4, " Delight yourselves in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." Interpretation: Enjoy God and He will give you purpose. I am seeing and feeling God's pursuit of me, His desire in action, His purpose for this life He has given me.

Let the journey continue :-)