My Pursuit

For the last few weeks, at Compass, we have been in an amazing marriage series called "Revolutionary Marriage." Today's message was about pursuing our spouse. So, needless to say, this last week I have been thinking and praying about how I can do this. I've been praying about how I can be a better husband, about how I can make my wife know that I love her, and not just know that I Do, but that I WANT to. I want her to know and feel that she is pursued by me, her husband, her SOLE mate.

This past week, I also was blessed to have attended a worship conference at Gateway Church, which was amazing by the way. But for three straight days I was reminded of God's pursuit of us. That's an amazing thought, huh? God pursues us! Notice that wasn't in past tense, but in present. He pursued us when He willingly sent His Son, Jesus, to this world to die in our place. A Savior now a man; a King now a servant. He pursued the Apostles when He washed their feet, the blind when he gave sight, the lame when He made their legs move and He pursues us today with that same love and humility and power and grace. He loves us and wants us as His own. He pursues us!

The question, in self-reflection, this week I have been asking is, "Do I pursue God? Do I pursue Jesus?" The answer to that question is yes, although I wish I could say that a bit more emphatically. Yes, I pursue God, but I know I don't the way I want to, the way Jesus desires me to. I want to pursue God the way David did. David was a man after God's own heart, and perhaps if I would live the kind of pursuit David displayed in Psalm 63, I would be too.

Psalm 63
1 O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.
2 I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my
hands.
5 My soul will be satisfied as with the
richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise
you.

Are you pursuing God? The question needs asked and Jesus deserves an answer. After all, He pursued us all the way to an old rugged cross.

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