If you seek the Lord your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart. Deuteronomy 4:29
The word pursue communicates action. Without desire, pursuing God gets reduced to obligation rather than obedience.... And a life of religious obligation yields spiritual apathy, performance-based religion, and a compartmentalized faith.
But--when we have genuine desire, we want to be close to God. We’ll do anything to reach Him. Jesus responded to this type of desire—people interrupted Him, yelled out to Him, touched Him as He passed by, barged in on Him, and crashed through the ceiling to get to Him. In short, they pursued Him.
Our own desire for Him can cause us to act in the very same ways. People wanted Jesus, and He did not disappoint them. He won’t disappoint you either because He knows that your heart is filled with desire for Him. God cares much more about our desire to connect with Him than any sort of competence in connecting: God can see right through any incompetence to a heart that’s tangled and untidy but longing for Him. He loves a heart—any heart—that is filled with desire.
Keep pursuing God by talking to Him, listening to Him, reading the Bible, and reflecting on His greatness every day. You are valuable to Him, and He wants to be intimate with you. Pursue Him!
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