Well it is Valentines Day which means people are ether spending time with the person they cherish or are doing other things in order to make it seem like they do not mind being single. I think on this day we can all think back to a time when we pursued after someone in a romantic way. I know as a guy the pursuit can be one of the most stressful but most rewarding things. Some guys are willing to drop everything in order to pursue a girl that they think is worthy of the pursuit. Now men have been pursuing after woman for as long as humans have been on this earth. I am sure some of you reading this can remember how you were pursued by your husband or boyfriend, or how you pursued after your wife of girlfriend. Now when I think of pursuit I think of the stories by Shakespeare of Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra. But what is the greatest story of pursuing after someone ever told?
The greatest pursuit ever told is when God in heaven sent his son to become a man in pursuit of his children. From the fall of man in Genesis we were separated from God because of our sin. But God who loves us above all else longs to not be separated from us. Philippians 2:8 that God humbled himself and became obedient to death on a cross. We see in John 3 that God loved the world that he sent his son to die for us. He didn't send his son into the world to condemn it but to save it.
What greater pursuit is there than that? God who had been separated from those he created because of sin left heaven in order to be united with his children. “Greater love has no other than this, that he lay down his life for his friends”(John 15:13) We have a God who died to be with us. What Pursuit is greater?
On this valentines day remember your first love and the one who loved you enough to come down from heaven to pursue you.
Brent
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