God's Continuing Pursuit of Us versus Our Pursuit of Him

I am pathetic. I don't know what pursuit really means. I pursue to get healthy and fit, and I always tend to fail. I pursue wisdom, but feel dumb. I pursue friendships and relationships and I seem to fail extremely at this. I let other people's moods, responses, words effect my pursuit. What I've learned recently about God, is that none of that effects His relentless pursuit of us.

I was reading "The Pursuit of God" by A.W. Tozer this morning on a plane, and here is what Tozer had to say: "To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love...Now, as always, God discovers Himself to the "babes" and hides Himself in the thick darkness from the wise and the prudent...We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without a doubt God will quickly respond."

Later today, I got on my friend Matt's blog, and saw this quote by Brennan Manning: "“And the God I’ve come to know by sheer grace, the Jesus I met in the grounds of my own self, has furiously loved me regardless of my state - grace or disgrace. And why? For His love is never, never, never based on performance, never conditioned by our moods - of elation or depression. The furious love of God knows no shadow of alteration or change. It is reliable. And always tender.”

God is obviously speaking to me on what pursuit is about. Most importantly, how I am pursuing Him. Do I give up? Am I weak? Am I still a "babe"? God is a very BIG God. I restrict Him to what my view is. I am worried what He will think. I am worried if He will be proud. Bottom-line is that He just wants me to seek to find Him, as He has already found me.

Most importantly is that God is the representative of what pursuit is all about. May I learn to pursue in all areas of my life, like God has pursued me.