My Jesus, My Lifeline

What is God like? Is his heart good?

"So long as we imagine that it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about; He is looking for us. And so we can afford to recognise that very often we are not looking for God; far from it, we are in full flight from him, in high rebellion against him. And he knows that and has taken it into account. He has followed us into our own darkness; there where we thought finally to escape him, we run straight into his arms. So we do not have to erect a false piety for ourselves, to give us the hope of salvation. Our hope is in his determination to save us, and he will not give in."

(Simon Tugwell from Prayer, in The Sacred Romance by John Eldredge and Brent Curtis)

Jesus i ran from you. i ran and ran and ran and ran and ran and ran and it seemed when i looked over my shoulder that you were further and further away and yet i ran straight into your arms.