Psalm
139:7-12: Where can I go from Your
Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven You are
there; if I make my bed in hell, behold You are there. If I take the wings of
the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand
shall lead me, and Your right hand shall still hold me. If I say, “Surely, the
darkness shall fall on me,” even the night shall be light about me; indeed, the
darkness shall not hide from You; but night shines as the day; the darkness and
the light are both alike to You.
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Inescapable
pursuit: Jesus said, “No man comes to
the Father, but by Me,” the Apostle John says, “We love him, because he first loved us.” That tells us God is the Initiator, Pursuer,
and the One who wins our affections with His Agape Love. The LORD over all
creation is so in love with you He seeks you out…
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The prophet Jonah is a picture of God’s pursuing
love. He purses both Jonah and Ninevah
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Nineveh is evil, wicked to the core but God has
mercy and wants to forgive them
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Jonah is hard hearted and rebellious, filled
with bitterness
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Each of the apostles was called in their own
profession or habit
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The woman at the well was rejcted by everyone
except Jesus
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God follows after all of them, uniquely,
patiently, and precisely
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And He follows after us too….think back to when
you first responded to His pursuing love…
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Thank Him for never giving up and ask Him to
give you the resolve to keep lovingly chasing the lost in your path.
Romans
8:31-39: What then shall we say
to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all
things… Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or sword… Yet
in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things
to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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