April 19 | God’s Love Is Pursuing You

Today’s readings from 2 Samuel 6–8 and Luke 15:1–10 invite us to consider how God’s love is expressed both through His presence among His people and through His relentless pursuit of those who drift, forming us over time through awareness rather than isolated moments.In 2 Samuel, David learns that the presence of God is not casual but deeply personal, revealing a God who desires to dwell among His people and establish them in love, faithfulness, and covenant relationship, not in distance or detachment.In Luke 15, Jesus reveals that same heart through stories of what is lost being pursued and found, showing that God’s love does not wait passively, but actively seeks, searches, and continues moving toward people until they are restored.Together, these passages invite us to reflect on a God who both comes near and reaches out, whose love is not abstract or distant, but present and pursuing, encouraging us to slow down and become aware of the ways His love is already at work in our lives.