God, our pursuer

I turned 60 a few years ago. After my birthday, I realized I was believing a lie that I had to have life figured out. The lie was exposed. My life is already figured out by God.
He knows the number of my days. He unfolds my story one moment at a time.
I am called to keep in step with His Spirit. I trust Him to write my story, and He provides what I need.
When I was thirteen, my family and I moved to Florida. We moved next store to a family and the kids were around my age, Jim, Todd, and Jennie. Paul and Wilma were their parents and the youth leaders at a nearby church. When school started, youth group started. Jim began pursuing me to come.
I finally said yes after Christmas. It was really to get him off my back. They announced there was going to be a retreat at the end of the school year, and it was going to be at a dude ranch.
I signed up.
We loaded up in cars on a Friday afternoon. We drove four hours to the dude ranch.
It was a fun time with activities planned. We went horseback riding, and swimming, played outdoor games, and hung out with each other.
On Saturday night, we sat around the campfire. We sang songs together, and Paul gave a message. At the end of the message, he asked if we wanted to receive Jesus into our hearts. I knew what he was asking.
I was scared. I wanted to hang on to my life.
We came back on Sunday afternoon. Jesus kept pursuing me, and I knew there was one thing I needed to do. On Sunday night, I gave my heart to Jesus.
A few years ago, I went through a study called Love Affair with God. I had contacted a woman, Janae Bowers, who wrote the study.
Jesus spoke in my spirit that He wanted a love affair with me. I researched studies online to see if there were studies that could aid me in His quest. He led me to this one. I worked through it for a year and then went through it again with a few friends.
In one of the lessons, we looked at our names. I discovered that my name was in the word pursue. It made me think of how God pursues me.
It made me think about how I pursue others.  
A few nights later, I was with a few close friends. During that evening, one of them shared how much she appreciated me pursuing her. She knew nothing about the study or how God had revealed Himself to me.
I received a card in the mail that same week from another friend saying,
“I am thankful for the way you pursue me….”
It was confirmation God revealed that to me in the study.
God pursues me and reveals things I need to let go of.
There have been lies that I believed, and he provided truth to replace them.
Jesus cares about me very deeply, as He does each one of you.
He wants all of me to surrender to Him.
Jesus came for one purpose: to die.
He went to the cross for you and me.
He could have said, “No thank you, no way, you are asking too much?”
Jesus obediently, willingly, and lovingly went to the cross and died for us. He purchased our salvation so we could live eternally with Him.

​God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16