So...I really don't know how to title these. On my other blog, it's easy. Because I'm really just venting and I can usually sum it up in a few words. Or, if not, I can just make it completely random. So...I guess I am just going to use random words from now on. Or quotes. Depending.
So, in pursuit of life. I guess would be the way to say it. I started reading this book called "Follow Me" by David Platt. And I really like it. I haven't really gotten much out of it for my own sake, other than in order to live like Jesus, I have to die everyday. I have to die to myself daily and let Jesus do the walking and talking.
But, what I have been getting out of the book lately is ways to get this idea across to others. And this is really important to me because I am going on a mission trip to CT this summer, and I am going to be hanging out with a lot of the local teens in the area. And I am sure that many of them could use a friend, and someone to show them what God's love can do and all that. But that's really not the ONLY thing that God wants us to share. And this book, has really cleaned a few windows.
So, I was reading a little yesterday, and here are some of the basic things I pulled out of what I read.
The first one is, that we need to realize that Jesus pursued us. We did NOT pursue Him. Even if we did, it wouldn't have gotten us very far. He came and pursued and chased after us himself. He did not send someone else, and he didn't wait for us to go to him. He came for us himself.
Proposal is an example that David uses in his book, which is a very good example once you stop and think about it.
A man wants to marry his significant other. Because he loves her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Makes sense, right? So, he walks up to her, and he gets on one knee, pulls out a ring, and asks her to marry him. He went on his own, by himself, to ask her a question that will change her life forever. Jesus did the exact same thing.
Jesus loves us. To the point where HE came to US, to show to us just how much he loves us. He came to us, and personally extended his invitation to us. A great line that David says in this book, he said "In matters of love, one my go himself." Which is true. You don't send a stranger off the street to propose, or to ask a date to the prom. You go and do it yourself.
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