The Un-Ending Pursuit
I haven’t been blogging all that much but I want all of you to know I am very flattered and humbled that so many of you would bother reading what I have to say. I feel because you all do keep track of this blog, that I should make it a point to try and update it more often. So here’s an attempt at that…..
Life is always in a state of flux. Rarely are we ever still and complacent.
What I mean by this is that even when God has us in a state of what we call “stuckness”, there is immense growth and preparation taking place. We only have to step back and open our eyes and see it.
There’s not been a lot of movement in terms of job opportunities for me. I’m very happy with my current community and my day job pays well, but it is by no means what I want to do for the next 5 years, much less the rest of my life.
As I’ve stated previously, I’ve started seminary and am moving towards what I feel the calling is God has placed on my heart. My desire to see people engage in a true relationship with Him and each other is becoming brighter. Providing a solid theological backdrop is the current step.
It’s amazing to see that to truly live a full life in Christ, there must be an un-ending pursuit to know Him and discover what His heart was, is, and always will be. The mind and heart of Christ is a simple idea wrapped in very complex terms. The radical nature of what He said changed the world. Something I have learned in school (which should be obvious but in reality, isn’t all that obvious if you don’t dig beneath the surface) is that the early Church in the 1st century had such a zealousness to spread the Good News that they had people dedicated to just copying the books and letters that eventually made up the New Testament Canon. These scribes would literally spend years making copies so that ALL of God’s people could have copies of the word.
Until this point, the Old Testament Canon had been limited primarily to the priests in the synagogue. For the first time, people had direct access to the scripture.
What’s further amazing is that the Bible survived years and years and years in a handwritten form until the invention of the printing press centuries later.
I write all of this because the un-ending pursuit of the heart of God is presented within the pages of a book we take for granted so often. It is full of wisdom, love, and how we should live our lives. Not just to “win” others to Jesus but to bring them in to fellowship with the Creator of the Universe.
To close, there is a man that I will always be thankful for despite the journey he is on now. He once said to me “if you immerse yourself in the scriptures, it will pour out of you.”
I pray that all of you would continue this un-ending pursuit of the heart of God and that the love and wisdom of the scriptures would pour out of you. Feed yourself, find a community of believers to do life with, and ultimately learn to love others with the heart of Christ.
