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His Love Pursues Us

The fact that the Creator of the universe pursues us is an unfathomable truth, perfectly illustrating our heavenly Father’s amazing love for us. Ephesians 2:8 says,

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”

Those who have believed in and accepted the gift of salvation have been lifted from the world’s foundation of works-based living and ushered into a new standard of grace. By grace alone, we have a wonderful, restored relationship with the God who passionately pursues us in every season of life. By grace alone, our lives are now based on the unconditional love of our good Father.

1 John 4:8 says,

“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

All that God does is love because it is his very nature. Every word of Scripture was authored because he loves us. Every good thing we have is only available to us because he loves us. The fact that you and I have air in our lungs is a miraculous demonstration of God’s overwhelming faithfulness. The fact that we can enter into such a depth of relationship with a perfect, holy God reveals his heart to pursue us.

Revelation 3:20 says,

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”

This passage in Revelation is God’s word to the lukewarm church in Laodicea. God doesn’t just knock on the doors of hearts filled with passion for him. He doesn’t just knock on the doors of the lost. He knocks on the doors of the hearts in desperate need of inner revival through his tangible, powerful love. He knocks on the doors of the hearts whose flame has been squelched by the cares and stresses of this world that he might come and reignite passionate communion between our spirit and the Holy Spirit.

The God of heaven and earth is passionately pursuing you right now. No matter how close you are to him, he is knocking on the door of your heart, asking to come in and meet with you once again. He’s not knocking to fix you. He’s not knocking to make you do something for him. He wants to meet with you. He wants to love you.

How you respond to the passionate pursuit of God is totally up to you. There is grace for you today to seek the face of your heavenly Father. There is grace to open up your heart and accept the wonderful gift of encountering God’s presence. There is grace to know and experience God’s love for you. The question before you is this: will you choose today to let God love you?

Prayer

1. Meditate on the heart of your heavenly Father to pursue you in love.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”Isaiah 49:15

“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”1 John 4:10

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”Jeremiah 31:3

2. Open up your heart to your loving Father. Ask him to reveal his nearness and love. Ask him to reveal his presence so that you might spend time truly meeting with him today.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.”Revelation 3:20

“But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.”Deuteronomy 4:29

3. Take time to let God love you. Open up the places of your heart that are broken and wounded, and cause you pain. Confess any sins holding you back from walking in the fullness of the relationship available to you. Don’t move on from God’s presence until you feel he has done the work he desires to do today.