| Review – Furious
Pursuit - Why God Will Never Let You Go |
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Book
review by Tom Gilbert — July 2007
Furious Pursuit by Tim King and Frank Martin
Waterbrook Press
 There
is a lot of talk about the need for people to find God.
People are clearly searching for meaning and purpose.
All too often we seek it in the wrong things that will
never satisfy, usually power, prestige, finance and romance.
At the heart of it is a desire that is basically spiritual,
even if we don’t identify it as such.
Tim King and Frank Martin are the authors who collaborated
on Furious
Pursuit – Why God Will Never Let You Go
(Waterbrook Press). They have given us a book that gets
to the heart of why we all desire meaning and purpose
in life and why trying to find or chase God misses the
point. The reason we all have an inner urge to seek the
Divine is because God pursues us! God, the all loving,
all powerful, ever present Creator of our lives is constantly
initiating contact. It’s just that we often don’t
perceive it.
The book is laid out in three parts. Part 1 is “A
Romance to Be Embraced: The Passion That Drew You” and
it introduces the concept of God’s pursuit of a
relationship with us and how we must change our perspective
to recognize this.
Part 2, “A Courtship to Be Nurtured: The Purpose
That Keeps You” is about finding out who we really
are. When we awaken to a purpose of a loving and ongoing
relationship with our Maker we usually have a deep “a-ha” moment.
This part of the book makes the critical point about
how we must have our relationship in the Eternal Moment.
God exists outside of time and space so it is only in
the now that we can be with Him. We have all become slaves
to a clock. Time is a constraint that binds us to our
schedules. But God is always with us and ever available
and not subject to time.
In Part 3, “A Marriage to Be Consummated: The Power
That Binds You”, the authors invite us to accept
the Divine proposal. God wants each of us as a Sacred
Lover. Our relationship is sealed through what God has
done for us through Jesus Christ. Again, God initiates.
He sent His son to tell us about God’s great love
for us and desire to be in our lives and transform our
lives through His nature of perfect love.
God loves us all. God calls us to a personal and intimate
relationship. It is a passionate and never ending pursuit,
but never forced on us. God’s love is perfect and
invites us, yet respects our free choice.
Some of the key points of this book are that we must
accept that God’s love and interest in us has nothing
to do with how good we are or how dutifully we obey His
commands. It’s not about performance. God loves
us in spite of, maybe even because of, our imperfections
and our sinful ways. God wants us to awaken to what we
can truly be, our real identity as beloved sons and daughters
of the Most High.
Discovering, understanding and accepting the message
in this book means we must let go of our pursuit of things
that are selfish and self-centered. It also means we
let go of our fear and underlying insecurities that we
aren’t good enough for God. And it means letting
go of our regrets, no matter how painful.
Both authors share personal stories and insight. They
write easily, with humor and with an earnest desire that
everyone discover how passionate God is about each of
us. They relate their fervent belief that God wants us
to have a deep, passionate and meaningful relationship
that is sealed with our sacred vow of dedicated love.
God is unchanging and is the larger story for us all.
Our own smaller stories fit into this larger story of
God’s love.
God will never let us go. What God thinks about us is
far more important than what we think about God.
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