The Pursuit of God

Welcome to my blog - Children of the Burning Heart. The name is taken from a phrase in The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer.

"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.
Scorned, indeed, by the too-easily-satisfied religionist,
but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart."

These words capture my mind and give expression to my heart. This is where I want to live:

• pursuing God even though He has already found me
• chasing Him even though He has never left me
• wanting Christ even though I already have Him

These statements could seem like contradictions to some or even produce scoffing in others (the too-easily-satisfied religionist), but I think it makes total sense to those who have tasted and seen that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8). As David wrote in an earlier Psalm:

One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord, and to seek Him in His temple.
— Psalm 27:4 —

This verse isn't coming from the pen of a spiritual neophyte. It's from David - a man after God's own heart (1 Samuel 13:14). And yet, even being so close to the Lord, David yearns to be with God and to gaze on His beauty ('delightfulness' in the literal Hebrew). The closer I get to Christ, the closer I want to be.

My hope with this blog is to explore — and to further — my pursuit of God. I'm sure there will be other posts on here too - ones about family, books, movies, vacations and food. Those can all be good parts of life, but they aren't the most important. They are given to us by God to draw us and others to Him.

One thing I ask of the Lord: to be a child of the burning heart.