HomeYou know, I’ve been thinking some about what my friend Jason Z said about us being covenant breakers. I have been thinking about this in regards to the name of the blog, which I have really liked and yet when I have put things down about the continuous pursuit, it has been emphasized about what we are chasing. And from the content from here and at my previous blog site on blogger, one would realize that the greatest pursuit that we have is our pursuit of God. Well, I think though that is as good as that sounds, I think it is only partially true. Now before you get upset, I am not saying that there is a greater pursuit than God. But in as much that I am pursuing Him and desiring to be with Him and to understand His word and to know Him more, there is something else at work here. You see, I am a covenant breaker, I am one who is prone to turn away from God. A person who if left to myself, I would self destruct. The point I am trying to make, albeit not well, is that while true that I am pursuing God, He is the one that is actually initiating the pursuit. For if I was dead in my trespasses and sins (that is really dead spiritually) then I was truly hopeless. This hopelessness was from conception, from the womb David says in Psalm 51:5. And so looking at Ephesians 2:1-3, a picture is painted of what we were destined to be without God.
Interestingly enough, based on us alone, we are bound to wrath, to destruction. Isn’t that your own experience without God. Chaos, destruction, despair, insatiable appetites for things that don’t satisfy or fill. Once God intervenes, calls, softens or intercedes in your life, the direction changes. Because HE has PURSUED you first. So in Ephesians 2:4, we see those mighty words “BUT GOD”. We were doomed, But God. We were lost, but God. We were pursuing other things, But God. But God pursued us. He pursued me and in so doing, energized, enabled, enticed, encouraged me to pursue Him, something that I could not do on my own. God interceded through His Son, who came down, lived a perfect life, paid my penalty for my sin, was resurrected on the third day and went back to the Father. Jesus did this to glorify the Father and to fulfill God’s sovereign plan, and in so doing, enabled me to be at peace with God that I might pursue Him as He enables.
So, as for Continuous Pursuit, I can only continuously pursue Him because of His Initial and Continuous Pursuit of me.