Augusta 16, 2010
I think we're all familiar with the song,You wont Relent. Personally, I can't hear it without it messing me up good. Last Friday night, it was part of our worship set, and God has a special message for me about my heart belonging to Him, and His seal being upon my heart. I love it when God speaks!
But it brought me to a place of considering what it means to be relentless. Why does God pursue us relentlessly? Especially when we are less than relentless in our pursuit of Him?
It led me to another thought, one I had recently in response to a friends feverent desire to have God take away the desires of her heart. What I shared with her was that God won't take away desires that are "God breathed." There are wants, needs, desires in our lives that are wired into the very "nooma" of our being. The desire to be connected at the heart level with another human being. The desire to live abundantly. The desire to love as He loves. These are all God inspired - not something we can request He remove. To do so would removed the essence of Him in our lives - to remove these things would be to deny HIM within us, to deny His perfect love in having created those things to begin with.
You see, some of these desires are the very things that make us "in His image." It's not just about the two arms, two legs, etc. "In His image" is more about being LIKE Him than looking like Him. He desires the heart connection; He desires abundant life; He yearns to see us love another as He has loved us.
And so. . .He pursues us.
R E L E N T L E S S L Y
And relentlessly, we navigate, negotiate, plead, beg, cajole, bargin and petition. His heart hears every cry of our own. . .and relentlessly in LOVE He anchors HIS desires for us even more deeply within our hearts. Relentlessly. . .He says, "No. This MUST stay."
Relentlessly. . .He loves us.
I have been so beautifully, relentlessly pursued by a God I do not deserve. And yet He makes me worthy of love.
I think we're all familiar with the song,You wont Relent. Personally, I can't hear it without it messing me up good. Last Friday night, it was part of our worship set, and God has a special message for me about my heart belonging to Him, and His seal being upon my heart. I love it when God speaks!
But it brought me to a place of considering what it means to be relentless. Why does God pursue us relentlessly? Especially when we are less than relentless in our pursuit of Him?
It led me to another thought, one I had recently in response to a friends feverent desire to have God take away the desires of her heart. What I shared with her was that God won't take away desires that are "God breathed." There are wants, needs, desires in our lives that are wired into the very "nooma" of our being. The desire to be connected at the heart level with another human being. The desire to live abundantly. The desire to love as He loves. These are all God inspired - not something we can request He remove. To do so would removed the essence of Him in our lives - to remove these things would be to deny HIM within us, to deny His perfect love in having created those things to begin with.
You see, some of these desires are the very things that make us "in His image." It's not just about the two arms, two legs, etc. "In His image" is more about being LIKE Him than looking like Him. He desires the heart connection; He desires abundant life; He yearns to see us love another as He has loved us.
And so. . .He pursues us.
R E L E N T L E S S L Y
And relentlessly, we navigate, negotiate, plead, beg, cajole, bargin and petition. His heart hears every cry of our own. . .and relentlessly in LOVE He anchors HIS desires for us even more deeply within our hearts. Relentlessly. . .He says, "No. This MUST stay."
Relentlessly. . .He loves us.
I have been so beautifully, relentlessly pursued by a God I do not deserve. And yet He makes me worthy of love.
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