Have you ever run from God? I think most everyone can admit they have at some point. But here's the part we don't picture in our mind's eye. God gives chase. He doesn't stand there and wait for us to return to Him. He runs to us - He runs after us. Pursues us. His Spirit is at work in our lives to draw His children into Himself. He's active, not passive. Sometime we think we can avoid His watchful eye. But those who are called His child are ever in His sight.
When we consider the parable of the Prodigal Son, the image that stirs my heart is how the father runs to his son as he sees him approaching. The father had every right to tell the son to go away and never come back because the son basically told his father that he was dead to him and he wanted his inheritance now. Even though squandered everything and returned, starved and hopeless, the father was running towards him, embracing him, heaping love on him. I can visualize the father couldn't be restrained as he ran with a heart filled with compassion to greet his son just as he saw him appear over the horizon - long before te son saw him.
Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias tells of a poet named Francis Thomspon that wrote a poem titled "The Hound of Heaven" in his online newsletter "A Slice of Infinity". Click below to read Ravi's short article, "On The Run".
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