Passionate Pursuit

We bought new shades for our bedroom windows when we first built our home, but I have yet to use them.  I don’t like that “closed-in” feeling.  I like to be able to lie in bed and look out at the starry night, watch the rain beat against the windows,  or see the sun rise in the early morning hours.

One morning I woke to see just one of the branches of our old oak tree shaking violently.  I couldn’t imagine what it was.  On closer inspection I saw a little gray squirrel bravely making his way to the very end of the branch in search of acorns.  He moved swiftly, grabbing an acorn and heading back the way he had come.   At the base of the tree he buried his treasure and immediately ran back up the trunk to get another.

My seat at our kitchen table faces out onto the lawn where the huge oaks are, and I began to watch these little” nut gatherers” whenever I was sitting there.  My admiration for them grew daily as I watched them diligently gather and store acorns.  With only occasional pauses, they pursued their task – often bravely running out onto branches that seemed barely able to hold them.  Nothing stood in the way of their objective.

Their example of single-minded purpose began to speak to my own heart.  I have always struggled with getting a proper balance in my life – more specifically my spiritual life.  I make so many good starts only to be side-tracked by something else.  I don’t know why it is, but it seems so easy to fall into the habit of putting off the Lord for just a little bit while I do the something else.  Before long all those other things have crowded Him out of the day.  My heart feels so heavy as I write those words.

I am working on being more like my little squirrel friends.  I want my single-minded pursuit to be Him.  I want to know His presence in my life every moment, to spend time at His feet listening to the words He desires to speak over me, to walk in obedience the path He has chosen for me.

The miraculous thing is, that is exactly what He wants too.  I am astounded to realize the God of heaven and earth wants to spend time with me.  I am so small, and He is so big.   Yet He longs to have a relationship with me.  He is the One who passionately pursued me, who drew me to Himself  by His gentle Spirit.  And now He waits, this great, loving God, for me to choose to come to Him.  He waits for each of us – for He loves with such perfect  love it is as though you were His only child.

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.  His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.”  Hosea 6:3 (NAS)

“For in Him we live and move and exist…”  Acts 18:28 (NAS)

Blessings,
Linda

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