Episode 391: I’m Talkin…Pursue

I’m Talking, episode 391 for October 12, 2025.

This is Joel from the I’m Talking microcast, where I share my thoughts on a topic that has piqued my interest this past week.

This week, we’re talking pursue.

So pursue is what you go after.

It’s what you’re chasing.

You think of lots of things that the world is after.

Fame, maybe fortune, money, recognition.

It’s not all bad.

It’s things to be rewarded for, to go after what you’re good at.

But sometimes that happens at a cost.

And what is that cost?

And oftentimes I think the world is so focused on what they are after and what they want to get and what they want to gain and the things that they pursue that they forget about the cost.

And to what end is it?

I mean, you know, it’s like the person with the most toys is the winner or something like that.

Or maybe the person with the greatest bank account or with a company or with whatever it happens to be.

But I think sometimes in the pursuit of things, we lose sight of why we are in that chase.

And therein lies the challenge for those of us who call ourselves Christians.

So today’s word comes from Psalm 23, verse 6, that says, Surely your goodness and everlasting love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.

So there’s a couple things that jump out in the word pursue in this section of Scripture.

And it is the entity, the person who is doing the pursuit, and that is God.

It says, Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life.

And that’s just something that is almost hard to grasp.

It surely means it’s going to happen.

It’s not something that’s not going to happen.

And the unfailing nature that God pursues us.

And it’s so interesting that people think they can earn that when what God says is, I’m after you.

I am coming to save you.

I sent my son to die for you.

And that pursuit of us is what saves us, not our pursuit of God.

It’s God finding us.

It’s God saving us.

All of the action is his.

And what it results in is a desire for us as Christians to live for him, to please him.

Even knowing we’re never going to be perfect, even knowing that, we know that we get to live in the house of the Lord forever because he pursued us.

What a blessing that is that we get to share with the world.

Until next week, this is Joel from the I’m Talking microcast.