From Erwin McManus:
I once met a girl named Kim, and I fell in love. And I pursued her with my love, and I pursued her with my love, and I pursued her with my love, and when I thought my love had captured her, I asked her to be my wife. And she said…well, she didn’t say yes. She said ‘Let’s pray.’ What a cheesy way of using faith! And I looked at her and said, ‘No two minute prayer is going to help you now.’
So I pursued her more with my love, until finally my love overwhelmed her and she said, ‘Yes’. You see, in issues of love, you can’t send your brother, you can’t send a friend…in issues of love, you have to go yourself.
This is the true Gospel: that God has pursued you with His love, and pursued you with His love, and pursued you with His love, and He hoped His love would capture you. He asked you to Himself and you perhaps had not said yes.
But in issues of love, you can’t send a prophet or an angel. In issues of love, you have to go yourself- and that’s why God came into human history as a man. That’s why Jesus is God Himself who walked among us, because in issues of love…you have to go yourself.
I heard this in a sermon today, and I had to write it all down. I cannot begin to imagine how much God has had to pursue me just so I’d say yes. This is truly good news. Such…good news.
