The news story was the kind of breathtaking romance you would expect to see on the big screen. Patrick Moberg spotted a stunningly beautiful woman across the crowded Manhattan subway station, but he wasn’t able to reach her. In desperation, Moberg created a Web site (www.nygirlofmydreams.com) and began a search across New York City, looking for the girl whom he had glimpsed only once and yet could not forget. Remarkably, within 48 hours and in a city of 8 million people, Moberg found her: Camille Hayton, a young woman from Melbourne, Australia.
Whenever we hear a tale of outrageous passion, we can’t help but listen, watch, marvel. We’re drawn to the intense emotion, and we’re curious to know what motivates it.
In Psalm 8, the writer is in awe of the overwhelming way God pursued His creation—His people—with zealous love. David took in the exquisite examples of God’s power and reach (“the night sky and . . . the work of [His] fingers—the moon and the stars [God] set in place”) and sat in dumbfounded amazement over how such a powerful God could feel such intimate care for us (vv.3-4): “[Who] are . . . human beings that You should care for [us]?”
When we take an honest look at our brokenness, comparing our ways with the tenacity of God’s extravagant love, we begin to ask: Why would God love us so completely when we are most often so unlovely? Knowing who He is—and who we are—why would God pursue us?
The answer to these questions weaves through every page of the Bible. In a word, it’s love. God loved. And because God loves, God came to us and for us.
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For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son (John 3:16).
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Where do you most need God to pursue you? How does God’s pursuit of you reveal how you should love others?
im in on October 29, 2009 at 2:58 am
I think the place that most need God to pursue is my whole heart. I’m too easily distracted by people, world, etc.
God told me that He loves me so much and i have the ability to love others as well. For i have a period, keep wondering on loving others. God knows us better than anyone in our lifes.
God initiatively comes into us and He wants us to abide in Him too. God asks us to love bro and sis in Christ so that His love can be revealed. i think the concept of bilateral way of love is there.
To me, it’s like a challege to love others who doesn’t appreciate. but Holy Spirit will tell:”Jesus also love and forgive those who crucify him.” learn to be like Jesus is so hard…
raptureready on October 29, 2009 at 5:47 am
I still have difficulty wrapping my brain around the kind of love that would be so intense and passionate that He in Jesus would take on all of the sins (past , present and future) of every human being who has ever lived, is alive or will be born and choose to die for those sins. What He endured when He was separated from the Father while on the cross is unimaginable. He separated so that we could connect. When I sin I have a tiny glimpse of being separated from Father God. I feel completely devestated and so very lonely. Will that be what an unbeliver experiences at death?
marcia.arumugam on October 29, 2009 at 7:57 am
He is ever loving and merciful to save us. His love encompasses all understanding. I stand at awe at His greatest love for all mankind. Today, we are saved, because of Him.
Truly, the Lord embraces each one of us in His arms in a flowing flame of love that we ought to always be in remembrance of Him.
But we also need to remember the lost along the way and pray for the lost at all times, that they may experience the joy of His Love, Peace and SALVATION.