"PROMPTLY and SINCERELY"

 

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In today’s devotion we are going to focus on the fact that we talked about on Sunday in our Talk, God is first and foremost after our hearts. That’s another way of saying that God wants us to enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.  May the truth of God’s pursuit of our hearts, and God’s grace-filled commitment to us, stimulate a pursuit within us of his heart. What if, as I suggested last week Friday, we were to begin our day with “God, what will we do together today?” as we set out to experience the fullness of his love and compassion.

 

BIBLE READING

PSALM 23:6

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord

forever.


MY HEART: "PROMPTLY and SINCERELY"

We have relationship with our Creator not because we sought him out, but because he is always pursuing us. Seeking our hearts.

Ephesians 1:16-18 says:

I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.

If we need a fresh understanding of God’s pursuit we need only to pray as Paul did: asking God to enlighten the eyes of our hearts. We need only to look to the pages of Scripture and see story after story of God pursuing those who turned away from him. The book of Haggai describes the heart of God to pursue his people and seek to have them turn toward him.

Here is the beautiful message of the Bible, I remind you of it often, because it’s too good not to share. There is nothing we could do to keep God from pursuing us. There is no sin too great, no distance we could run, that would discourage God from loving us. From the moment we were born God has been pursuing your heart, longing for relationship with us.

God is after your heart right now. He simply wants you to know He is with you and for you. Respond to God’s pursuit today by giving him your heart.

I believe Augustine understood this truth when he declared:

 

 Give God your whole heart in response to his great love and grace for you. Open the door of your heart to him and rest in a revelation of his loving-kindness. May your heart find peace, joy, and fulfillment today in the fact that God will never stop pursuing you.