Jesus seeks us

You can’t escape dealing with sin and Jesus. Either sin controls you or else Jesus controls you. It is one or the other. To hold onto sin you must reject Jesus. To have Jesus hold onto you, you must repent and be released of your sin through Jesus. If you refuse to turn to Jesus sin will run your life. Yet all the while Jesus pursues you and offers you salvation. To keep on refusing him is to play a very dangerous game with your life and soul.

Today he still peruses you to forgive you and give you new (spiritual) life. But on judgement day both sin and in consequences and Jesus as judge will catch up with you. You can’t escape dealing with sin and Jesus. trust in him today. Jesus is our only hope.

THE LIFE OF FRANCIS THOMPSON was a downward spiral that landed him on the streets of nineteenth-century London—, an opium addict and a starving derelict. There, God caught him.

Finally.. The son of a doctor, Thompson started out with great potential. His father sent him to study for the priesthood, and then to another school to become a doctor. But he failed at both professions and became a waster instead, running from responsibility, family, and God. Eventually, he hit bottom. Wandering the back alleys of London, he was hungry, friendless, and addicted to drugs. With tattered clothes and broken shoes, he barely survived by selling matches and newspapers. Still, God did not relent in His dogged chase to capture the young man's soul.

A ray of hope came when Thompson began to write poetry. Wilfred Meynell, an editor, immediately saw Thompson's genius. He published his works, encouraged him to enter a hospital, and personally nursed him through his convalescence. This marked a spiritual turnaround in Thompson's life as evential he trust Jesus as his Saviour.

In the poem "The Hound of Heaven," he writes of his flight from God and God's pursuit of him.

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;

I fled Him, down the arches of the years;

I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind;

and in the mist of tears I hid from Him,

and under running laughter....

Still with unhurrying chase,

And unperturbed pace,

Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,

Came on the following Feet,

And a Voice above their beat—

"Naught shelters thee, who will not shelter  Me."

Remember Jesus is our only hope. John 14v6 'Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. he is the only way to God.'