The love that we receive from Christ seems so...graceful. God is just so amazing, he can whisper soft words in our ears to calm our every fear. He is seen as the man that has it altogether. He faces so many difficult things for just one person but he never blows up on someone or just says alright I am done with this whole God thing, anyone want it! God is a masterpiece with the softest touch. We always view God's love for us as simple and an everyday task. Well I imagine it is but I can guarantee it's not easy. I can't even fathom how hard it is to love every single person in this world, each in a unique way. Think of just your relationship with Christ and how big of a deal that is to you with how intense it is. Now imagine that times millions upon millions. I know we think there aren't many Christians out there but there is more than what meets the eye.
Putting God in a box of being safe and comforting is good until a certain point. Until the point where we no longer see the intensity God brings. If God fought like a true fighter of this world he wouldn't be the person we wanted him to be. With curse words flying out every 10 seconds and swinging his fist in hopes of knocking someone down all just so he could get a medal to hang around his neck so he could call himself a victor. This imagine is world generated by what we think a true champion should be like. From Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali to Sugar Ray Robinson...there titles tell them they won but God beats them all without every physically stepping into a boxing ring. So what makes a man that has died, before our time, that walks around us everyday as a spirit-like man in a white robe so much better than these legends? Grace.
From Genesis all the way to Revelation God never once stopped fighting for us. HE WAS RELENTLESS. If God stop and put in the towel for a couple of battles so he could rest up for the next one there would be holes in the history of this world and who we are. If he didn't go as hard in the fights he fought, he wouldn't of won like he did. Jesus flipped the tables in the market place while people sold so frivolously so they could survive while Christ was standing there all along. In what appeared as anger was God showing that he was fighting for our lives. We get handed over to idols so easily that it just sucks us in and God holds on for dear life while we push his fingers right off the edge of our hearts. Relationships take the place holder for Christ in our hearts and we wonder why none of them ever pull through. GOD IS RELENTLESS. So your thinking, "how is he relentless if some things never change?" Things always change...for Christ. He faces a new day with every single one of us with a different situation he has to keep running with. It is just like writing a bazillion books that never stop.
Seeing that God has grace and that feeling that he could just complete everything about us screams hero. He IS the unsung hero. He HAS fought the battle. He is MADE relentless. Christ sacrificed his nice comfy home in heaven to walk this earth with people that could never compare to him. He actually associated himself with them and acted as if he was one of them. He lived an earthly life with the thoughts of the heaven stream on continuous connection. He knew he had a duty to bring us to a better hope and future as a people. He knew he was going to be threatened. That he was going to be beaten. That he was going to be rejected. That people would look at him like he was crazy. That life on earth would get a lot more crazy with God on it. He didn't take a step back and say he wasn't ready that maybe he could try it next year. He jumped in with both feet and heart full of passion.
God fought for our hearts. The world grips it while God ask for our hearts to be his so we can be free. Seeing how easy it sounds to hand our hearts over to a gentle feeling verses how the world takes it is so hard to believe it is true. But it is because God is RELENTLESS. He is relentless to love. Relentless to discover. Relentless to save us. Relentless to face disaster. He is so fond of not giving up because his scribe to love us beyond the edge of time is carved in his heart. A man that has breathed life into all of these sinful people like ourselves has to be so relentless with as much grace.
No matter how many times we push God away he is back for more and more. And WE CRY, WE KICK, AND WE SCREAM because he just acts too perfect!!! He is perfect but that is not the nature that we see of God in here....his relentless nature is what makes us know that he is all knowing. We need to let God be relentless in our lives. Let us pursuit God. Let the desire be all knowing through God and our faith in him. Let it be relentless.
GET PSYCHED! "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?"
~Luke 15:4
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