GOD WILL PURSUE YOU

A picture posted in Facebook caught my attention a few weeks back.

 

It was a picture of the sun setting down in the sea. There was nothing special about the sun or the sea. What caught my attention was the caption.

“God is like Oxygen. You can’t see Him but you can’t live without Him”.

I immediately clicked on the “Like” button. I was about to click on the “Share” button when I realized something.

God and oxygen may be similar but they are very much different. Confusing? Allow me to explain my point.

The principle of breathing is simple. Man needs oxygen to live. If you breathed in oxygen you live. But, if one day you decide not to take in oxygen then you will not live to tell others what happened.

God is different.

Even if you become un-faithful to God, He will still be faithful. If you decide to ignore him, He will still pay attention to everything you do. When you think God is absent in the midst of trial, He is there carrying you through the storm. When you fall into sin, He is always ready to forgive even before you ask.

God’s love for you is more important the oxygen.

I love how David closed Psalm 23 with this verse.

“Indeed, (your) goodness and mercy will pursue me all the days of my life; I will dwell in the house of the LORD for endless days.” - Psalm 23:6

God will pursue you because God loves you.

God will pursue you because He wants you to be part of His family. 

“Thus says the Lord God: I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land. I will make them one nation upon the land, in the mountains of Israel” - Ezekiel 37:21-22

God is a father who longs to have you in His presence. He wants you to be part of his team. He desires to have you in His royal family.

God will pursue you.

Are you willing to cut the chase and ready to love Him back?

Have a blessed day!

QUICK TO FORGIVE

Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” — Matthew 18:21

“Papa, I left my Gameboy inside the movie theater!” my son Jason said. It had been almost 10 minutes since we left the moviehouse. We ran back to the theater. The next batch of moviegoers were already filing in. I was anxious we wouldn’t find his Gameboy anymore.

We rushed to the place where we had been seated but we only saw empty seats. My emotions were shifting from anxiety to anger when Jason said, “Papa, please forgive me for losing my video game.”

I didn’t know how to react. I just replied, “Don’t worry, it’s just a toy.” Then, as if on queue, the maintenance man approached us and asked if we were looking for a video game. He told us to proceed to their office so we could claim it.

Jesus teaches us to forgive repeatedly because God is always willing to forgive us. His concept of forgiveness is very different from ours. We are choosy about who to forgive while He forgives all who return to Him. While we take longer to pardon, God forgives immediately. God’s great love for us will always surpass our sins, whether big or small.  

- alvinfabella, sharing from Didache March 5,2013