Chasing the heart of God

I was just scanning through my Facebook newsfeed and saw on a friends post something that struck me. The line read: "Stop chasing hearts that don't want to be caught." How true this is. So often times we chase after the hearts of people and things that have no interest in us. I see this a lot with teenagers, especially girls. They focus all their energy on catching that one particular guy's attention because they think that they will be incomplete if that person never notices them. They lay their self worth on the opinions of others. I see it in adults as well. They chase after the heart of success, the heart of fame, the heart of fortune, and so often times the heart of acceptance from the world. Instead of focusing on their own heart and what God wants for them, they focus on things they have no control over.

I am just as guilty. I have chased after the heart of someone who didn't want to be caught. I have also chased after situations and things that were not meant to be mine. I wasted time and energy trying to seek thinks I wanted when I should have been focusing on what God had planned for me. The heart I should have been chasing was God's. Jeremiah 29:13 states: "You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart".

That's how it should be for all of us. Our focus should be on chasing the heart of the one who wants to be caught by us, Jesus. He patiently wait for us to stop chasing the hearts of meaningless things and to realize that we need Him. This past Sunday the speaker at our church spoke on this. Jesus places peace and salvation in our grasp, all we have to do is stop chasing those things that cause us turmoil and grief and reach out and take the one thing that will give us peace. 

I challenge you to not chase after the hearts of those things that can't and won't be caught but to chase the heart of the One who willingly waits for you to find Him.