God's Love: A Love That Relentlessly Pursues You
We all share a deep, fundamental desire: to be loved. Not just loved for what we can do, or for how we look, or when we are at our best—but to be truly known and loved unconditionally. Yet, the love we often experience in the world can be fragile and conditional. It can leave us feeling like we have to earn it, and that we can lose it. But the Bible speaks of a different kind of love. It describes the love of God not as a passive feeling or a distant affection, but as an active, relentless, and powerful pursuit. From the very beginning of the story, we see this is the nature of God's heart. In the Garden of Eden, after Adam and Eve broke their relationship with God, did they go searching for Him? No. They felt shame, and they hid. But what was the first thing God did? He came walking in the garden, and He called out a question that echoes through all of human history. He asked, "Where are you?" Think about that. The very first action of God toward his rebellious, hiding c...