God loves us so so much. He has pursued us from the beginning.

When I set up this blog and felt led to name it Actively Pursuing.  I thought maybe it was a play on all the things I had my hands in at the time. But in the last month I am seeing it had nothing to do with me. Its about the pursuit of God after me and after us. I have always seen his hand in my life. But looking back through history and thinking of all the ways he pursues us, when he doesn’t have to. Mind blowing!

He has pursued us from the beginning. He continued to make a way for us, knowing we are prone to wander, prone to sin. But he created us in his image, even in our worse state he sees himself in what he created and pursues us and makes a way to draw us back to that original design. He wants us to trust him, rely on him, and follow his ways. Jesus revealed all things to us. He created us to depend on him for our very breath.

Even from the beginning, he could have wiped us all out and started again with a newer better version, but he didn’t. Instead he used Noah and his family and then promised to never do that again. Then story after story of God bringing us back to himself and then the final reconciliation using Jesus to pay the price for us once and for all. It’s settled, its done; we are his.

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