This is an excerpt of my newly released Christian book
"Apprehended & Apprehending"
Taken from the chapter 5 of the book
We follow hard after God because we have become aware of the need
for a deeper life in Him, with Holy hunger. He initiates this pursuit to a
point where we hunger so much that nothing can satisfy us anymore unless we get hold of Him in the depth of our beings. This awareness
of Him seeking for us causes a chain reaction as the chase begins. At the
beginning, it is not that difficult because we are head over heels in love with
Him. I remember being apprehensive, wondering how I managed to fall in love
with Him simply because I did not know Christians could fall in love with God.
In this hot pursuit, you will soon realize that it takes everything you possess
in your heart, soul, and spirit to follow hard after Him because of the
intensity, the urgency, the zeal, and so on. Soon, you find out pursuing hard
after God is about claiming your inheritance through the rigid preparation of
an heir in the making. Eventually, this pursuit led me to the wilderness with
Him where you become exhausted but you are to persevere and endure. As you
continue the chase you live with the attitude and the full knowledge that you are indeed the King’s
precious child.
The only way Christ can completely apprehend us is if we join
Him on the journey and do our share through total surrender. Please do not
misunderstand me. I am not saying that Christ does not have the ability to
apprehend us without our help, but this is how He has chosen to work. He will
not override our will to love Him and join Him in this journey. Neither am I
saying that a lip service job of surrender will do. He is not interested in having a half-baked surrender that is done on a case
by case basis. Either one of these wrong methods is a rejection of the terms of
His covenant with us. He wants our all with no reservations. When we understand what Christ has done for us, we understand His
immeasurable grace, love, mercy and goodness. We cannot help but run back to
His feet and surrender ourselves. When we start enjoying the life we have in Him through faith, we understand how lucky we
are compared to those who are perishing. When we learn the sweetness of living
in His bosoms we also realize how silly we were for having resisted Him for so
long as well as for the time we wasted away from Him. Only then do we see the
gravity, the ignorance, the blindness, the loss, and the present and future
pain of living in the Devil's claws. As we recognize what we have in Him, we
enjoy the freedom we have, willingly becoming His prisoners and His
bondservant. What a life! What a God! What a wonderful paradox we live through Christ!
This excerpt is from my newly released book. If you want to read more please get the book on Amazon kindle or paperback. Kindle link & Paperback
