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God has chased us all the way from Eden. We’ve come a long way from Eden, running all the way. He never tires, never flags, never wavers in his pursuit of us: relentless, unbent, undeterred. Still we run. Eventually he catches us. We were well hid, or so we thought. But suddenly he was there! Right there! Where we least expected him. And we shout: We are found!
But soon we run again, and again he chases. Always. All our lives. What is it we fear? His love is overpowering. His love is fierce. When he catches us, it changes everything. Look at Paul. God pounced on Paul like a mountain lion on a kid, and tore him up. Paul never recovered. An authentic encounter with the living God will ruin your life. We run scared.
His love could burn us up from the inside out. His love is hot. His love is sticky. We can’t get free of it. No matter how we try.
We don’t want to be caught by God. It changes us. If God tags us, we’re “it.” And then what will we have to do? What does he want from us? Where will he send us? What will become of our comfortable lives?
How it hurts! — How it tingles! — When our foot’s been asleep and the blood starts flowing again. And how, when God enters our lives, pounces upon us from behind some rock beside the road we travel, how it hurts! When feeling starts coming back to our lives, where we’ve been shambling, numb, asleep. When the grace starts circulating again through our unfeeling hearts and minds and sets us tingling. Hot, burning, we jump and shout. We cry out: I’m alive, I’m alive! God has found me and I’m alive!
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