Pursue God or be pursued...your choice

If we are God's child, we will either be pursuing God or he will pursue us. It's inevitable. Why?

1.            Because He is love and loves us

2.           We were made to find life *(glory) in him

3.           We are not fully experiencing that life (glory)

4.           The more we find him to be our life (glory) the more we experience true life (glory)

5.            The more we find him to be our life (glory) the more we honor/glorify him by more fully displaying him to others.

We can say this because God loves His children  unconditionally, whether we pursue him or not. And this is true as far as God's love being set upon us. Nothing we do or do not do will change the completeness of his love for those who are in Christ. His love is based on Christ's efforts, not ours. 

However, to say our pursuit of Him doesn't matter indicates we do not truly understand his love. If we truly know his love, it will set us on fire for Him, i.e. it will result in a passionate pursuit of God. How can it not when we were made for life and he is that life? If we are not on fire, it is precisely because our hearts have not been lit up by his love.

And if we are his, he is always seeking to draw us closer to himself, to inflame and engulf us in the fullness of his love. 

He prescribes means by which this occurs. If we participate in these means, we will increasingly be drawn to him. However, if we do not, be certain he will pursue us to bring us to that place we desire him above all things. This is what a loving father always does. 

"...For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness." -  Heb 12:6-10 

28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. - Romans 8:28-29

"...And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6 

*For a further discussion on how we are created for glory click here.