Redeeming Love

All day yesterday as I was reading "Redeeming Love" I kept thinking, this book is really good but there has to be a deeper message in it than what I'm seeing with my eyes and this girl is driving me crazy with her running away. I've got to dig deeper spiritually in this book.  This book has been recommended to me by so many people already, there has to more to it than what I'm seeing.  Then it hit me, the verse that penetrated my very being several weeks ago, came to life once again "You didn't choose me.  I chose you......"(John 15:16). 

I'm not going to spoil the book for those of you who haven't read it and I'm still not quite finished with it myself but in the depths of this book I have found this very important message that has resonated in my soul.  The most intriguing revelation of all, the pursuit and love that our Heavenly Father has for us.  I knew Jesus loved me. Hello, I was taught that as a child but the pursuit part is the part that I never quite grasped.

It wasn't just an ordinary pursuit that we would have when we pursue something.  Our kind of pursuit is limited.  First, we give it all we have, we're determined. We put our entire heart into it but if things don't appear to be going as we thought they would or should, we eventually give up. We use whatever stupid excuse we can come up with but honestly we're just simply tired of putting that much energy into something that is showing us no return. However, the pursuit that was revealed to me in this book was not like our kind of pursuit at all.  This was a PERSISTENT pursuit.  A kind of pursuit that has unconditional love and forgiveness wrapped up in it.  When I was thinking about this, I pictured Jesus talking to our Father, and saying "hey dad, you see that one right there, the one in that adulterous relationship, that just divorced her husband and is drowning herself in alcohol and men.  I want her, what do you say?  I see God looking at Jesus and saying, go get her son, you've been praying for her".  Just like that Jesus pursued me nonstop until I stopped, looked up and allowed him to pull me out of the pit...WOW...That my friend IS redeeming love....A love beyond my comprehension, a love with no boundaries and no limits.  A love that brings tears to my eyes when I think that He chose and pursued me with great love!