God is chasing after you, He wants you, He pursues you, and He loves you recklessly. I mean isn't that incredible? How can you not just be overwhelmed by that truth?
Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down, fights 'til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine I couldn't earn it, and I don't deserve it, still, You give Yourself away Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, yeah Do you believe that? It's easy to listen to a worship song and just go through the motions, to stand there and sing along without opening your heart to actually receive what God wants to give you. About a month ago, I was driving alone in my car and I turned on Cory Asbury's song Reckless Love, it was the first time I had listened to it with the expectation that God would show up, because at that point I just needed to feel His love. I was looking to feel God's presence, and He met me where I was and opened my eyes to what He wanted to show me. You see as I've been sitting on this truth and letting it fill my soul, I was looking back in my journal and I saw that God had been trying to get my attention for a while, and I just recently listened to what He had to tell me. Last November, I wrote, "I've always been afraid of never being wanted or loved or pursued. Maybe God hasn't allowed these things to happen because He is waiting for me to be content with being loved and pursued by Him." God says in Matthew 18:12-14 that he chases me down, fights until I'm found, and leaves the ninety-nine coming after me. He has been pursuing me since before I knew I wanted to be pursued, and He is chasing you. He wants you, He pursues you, and He loves you recklessly. I mean isn't that incredible? How can you not just be overwhelmed by that truth? A month later, I wrote: "I've been believing lies about myself and its been affecting my sense of self, my relationships with others, and my relationship with God. ... I want to believe God's truth about me. I want to know that I am lovable, worthy, and beautiful. I want these walls to come down." God says that there is no lie He won't tear down, wall He won't kick down, coming after me. He says in Ephesians 1:3-6 that we've been adopted into His kingdom, we are His beloved, and He will stop at nothing to prove that to us. It doesn't matter how far you've run or how hopeless you feel, there is nothing too big for God to conquer; His love always prevails. I think the most amazing part of God's love is how there is nothing we could do to earn it, and the fact remains that we don't deserve it. Yet, He willingly gives himself away. It's so easy to go through life knowing that God loves you, without ever letting that resonate to your soul. But when you really let down your walls and allow yourself to be vulnerable in God's presence, He will overwhelm you. He is always there, waiting to reveal himself, we just have to open our hearts to Him so we can receive it. Sometimes, it takes a lot of hurt in our lives for us to get to the point of surrender, but we always have a choice. Everyday you have the choice to allow God to move in your life, to allow him the space to overwhelm you, and to feel His love and presence. You just have to decide to trust His love to sustain you, it's an everyday battle but when You seek His presence, He will always shows up.
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Keri
7/26/2018 12:53:29 pm
Powerful truth when it gets past our heads and into our hearts!
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