Passionately Pursuing God

Psalm 63:8
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. (KJV)


God has really been stripping me down, lately - taking me "back-to-basics," so to speak. He’s been reminding me of what He asks of me, what He really asks of me - the core of who I am, and what my life is to be about. Passionately Pursuing Him. It’s something He spoke over me a couple years ago, and my life seems to have drifted from that - not far, but drifted none-the-less. I’ve found that I have been getting caught up in serving and obeying and doing all the stuff . . . not that the "stuff" is bad, necessarily, it’s just that it’s not coming from the right place.

God wants my obedience and my service and my worship and all of that, but He wants it to come from that deep place within me that simply wants to know Him more, know Him for all that He is, in every way.

Normally I read and teach in the NIV, but this verse is so much better when we take it "back-to-basics," as well. "My soul followeth hard after thee..." That’s what it’s to be about. As much as I love to be pursued and loved by Him, He also loves to be pursued and loved by me - a lovers cat and mouse game, in a way. He keeps reminding me that I am not to look left, nor right - I am not to pay attention to what the world tells me, or even the Church, with the best of intentions. I need to focus on Him. I need to look deep in His eyes, and let Him tell me what to do and where to go and how to get there. And really, when I search deep within myself, I discover that that is all I really want anyway - to simply gaze deep into the soul of my truest Lover - this God who knows me intimately and loves me anyway. This perfect Man who, for some reason, delights in me, is passionate about me, and wants me to know Him.

God is taking me back to the beginning, when I was passionate about Him. Not passionate about what I’m doing, or what the Church is doing, or even what He is doing through me and the Church (although none of that is bad). And I have to admit, that it feels good, to just let my thoughts linger a little. To simply think on Him, and be taken to a place of sheer delight that can only be experienced with Him, in Him.

To delight in Him, and let Him delight in me. All else flows out of that place - I don’t want it any other way, and I don’t believe that He does, either.

So, I come to you today and ask you to join me. To just step back, sit down, relax and just revel in the delight and love and mystery and passion and fire and wildness and care and tenderness . . . all that God is - just soak it in.

Let Him thrill you, and take you to a place of sheer, innocent, passionate ecstacy! Let the Lover of your soul, do just that - love you, giving you opportunity to love Him back.