Our God is a pursuant God. We run; He chases. Over and over again. Perhaps we see this most clearly in the book of Jonah. The account opens with God commanding His prophet Jonah to go to Nineveh to share a message of repentance. Jonah, however, has other plans – he ran the opposite direction God had ordered him to go. So what did God do? He chased Jonah down and brought him to repentance so that he might be used in God’s plan to bring others to repentance as well.

What was it that led God to chase Jonah down? What is it that leads Him to chase us, too? David answers that here in Psalm 23. It is God’s goodness and faithful love, often translated as “mercy.” It was love that chased him down. So the storm God threw at the boat was good. And the fish he sent to swallow Jonah was good. Because they were each used by God to bring Jonah back to where he needed to be.

That is what God does for us, too. He chases us when we run. He throws storms our way. And He delivers us in ways that might seem like anything but kind acts of His love. But whether we see it or not, God’s goodness and faithful love always run beside us.

How have you experienced God chasing after you?