BEING PURSUED BY GOD!

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: “Surely your goodness and your unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6

TODAY’S MESSAGE: I was once being chased by a hungry lion. I ran and ran but this lion just kept getting closer and closer to me. All at once the lion was upon me and about to close his jaws around me when I woke up and realized that it was only a dream. Just as I was being pursued by that lion in my dream, you and I are being pursued by someone real. That person is God himself. His message of salvation, healing and forgiveness is real and not a dream. His pursuit of us is real, and I believe it will continue, until we either succumb to his pursuit, or we outrun him and never let him get close. What we must understand is the reason he is pursuing us. The bible tells us that it is because he loves us, and he has a desire to have a relationship with us. He pursues us to save us from our sins and from dying in those sins. Without him we will go to hell and not heaven. He is pursuing us because his love is one that is considered sacrificial. He sacrificed his son for the right to pursue each of us. He pursues us because we are his creation. Yes, we are born a sinner and born into a sinful world, but he has given us an alternative way of becoming his child and not the child of the devil. He pursues each of us through Jesus, the Holy Spirit and his Mighty Word, the Bible. He is relentless in his love for each of us and relentless in his pursuit of us. It is wise for us to slow down in our attempt to run from God and let him catch us. When he does his loving arms will gently surround us with a love that we have never felt before. We will be stronger, more loving and more joyful in the way we live our lives, as witnesses among those around us. PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL THINGS!