God's Glory Pursues Me
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God’s glory protects me and God’s glory pursues
me. Interestingly, enough I looked up
the definition of pursuit and pursuit means, “an activity that one engages in
as a vocation, profession, or avocation.”
The thought of Christ’s pursuit for me as HIS profession is astounding
to me. The King of Glory, who rules with
justice, left HIS heavenly position to pursue me. He made me, you the object of HIS affection
and purpose in life.
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We are the reason he CHOSE to leave heaven and
come into the world and love us with a relentless love. Relentless: continuing without becoming
weaker. Even when His pursuit led Him to
make a choice between obeying the father or letting the cup of death pass, he
humbly chose to accept the cup of death. He did not grow weak in HIS love he
grew stronger. I know this because at any
point in his thirty-three years he could have backed out and returned to His
throne. When tempted by the enemy he did
not waiver, he held tight to the purpose for which he left heaven, YOU. While dying a torturous death on a cross, he
was silent and loved us with relentless love.
Though he was weak while hanging on the cross, His love was growing
stronger by the second. Staying on the cross in the face of mockery took more
strength, than calling angels and returning to heaven.
One of the definitions for love in the Webster’s
is, a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal
ties. Christ loves us. He has personal ties to us. God’s glory
pursues us simply because He LOVES us. “But
God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)
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Yes you, the one who like me has sinned against
him. The one, like myself that has held
anger, resentment,
un-forgiveness, worry, doubt, even hate in my heart. The one who has wandered away into the ways
of the world looking for love and acceptance in all the wrong arms. He loves you. He loves me.
He pursues us because it is HIS profession. He will NEVER stop pursuing you. He pursued me through pastors in my life,
through family in my life, through His word in my life, through friends in my
life, and He continues to pursue me with His spirit in my life.
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You may be like me and not realize this is what
is taking place in your life, but with every kind word spoken, every voice of
reason, act of service, with every dream fulfilled, every tender touch from
your child, every sunrise, every cup of coffee, smile from a stranger, He
pursues us. Every good and perfect gift
is from Him. So see he is pursuing you everyday you awake. He pursues us through the majestic mountains,
and overwhelming beauty of his creation.
With the sound of waves crashing against the sand, the chirping of
birds, the wind in your hair these are all ways he reveals His glory and love
to you and I. He pursues us with HIS
life and why does he pursue us, because HE loves us. He has personal ties with us. We are HIS and He will let nothing and no one
even the enemy of our soul steal us away from Him.
I am curious to know how are some of the ways He
has pursued you?
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