a never ending pursuit.
I sat at church a couple Sunday’s ago and at the end we were asked to fill out a brief survey at the bottom of our bulletins. The questions were basically, how often do you attend church, when, etc. After finishing jotting down my responses, I glanced to my right and the lady sitting next to me wrote: “After 8 years, I am finally coming back! :)”
WHEW.
I so wanted to grab a hold of her and squeeze her so tight and kiss her sweet cheeks. My heart was so so so overwhelmed! BUT, I contained myself haha! I instead covered her precious soul in prayer seasoned with the sweetest words I could put together. I felt so moved.
Then, I got in my car and the Lord and I got to chatting. He reminded me…
No matter how many years, days, months, hours, or minutes you spend running from Him, replacing Him, pushing Him away, etc. He always draws you back. He’s your Daddy, why on earth wouldn’t He. We were wired and knit together so intricately that He created a void in us that can only be filled by Him.
No matter what you’ve been into, who you’ve been with, or where you’ve been He always draws you back. He loves you with an unconditional love. That means it doesn’t change. Despite changing emotions, this one never, EVER changes.
[Insert that frail moment here when I’m brought to my knees at how amazing, perfect, loving, gracious, awesome, powerful, and perfect my King is!!!]
I pray so hard for everyone to know and I mean KNOW Him like I do. He craves you! He wants to spend crazy amounts of time with Y-O-U!!! He thinks about you, He wants to laugh with you, heal your heart, cure your illness, guide your life and direct your steps. STOP filling that void with so many other things. Just stop, nothing will ever satisfy you. Rather that be alcohol, drugs, spending money you don’t have, attention from randoms, beautiful men or women, your computer screen, food.. whatever it is. You have to come to the point in your life of pure surrender, when you just stop playing games with God and BE REAL.
God and I always have cries together when I want my way but He’s saying, “No Brittney, just NO. You can’t see WHY but TRUST ME.” But, it’s so hard! We argue and fight and I ask Him, “WHY?” And yell. But, God and I also laugh. I love writing everything down and journaling so I can look back and be like “WOW look where God brought me.”
Basically, God wants to have a one on one relationship with little ol’ you. He will not stop pursuing you. The real question is have you stopped pursuing Him?
“The Lord directs the steps of the godly, He delights in every detail of their lives.”
Psalm 37:23
“…I have called YOU by name, YOU are Mine.”
Isaiah 43:1b.
“Put on your NEW nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like Him.”
Colossians 3:10
“The name of the Lord is a strong fortress; the godly run to Him and are safe.”
Proverbs 18:10
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