I have the worst habit of updating blogs when its late at night and i have work to do. as i was sitting on the dining table of my apartment trying to study for my stats test tomorrow, I suddenly remembered the song “you won’t relent”

here are the lyrics:

I’ll set You as a seal 
upon my heart
As a seal upon my heart

For there is love that is as strong as death
Jealousy demanding as the grave
Many waters can not quench this love

You wont relent until you have it all
My heart is Yours 

For there is love that is as strong as death
Jealousy demanding as the grave
Many waters can not quench this love

Come be a the fire inside of me
Come be the flame upon my heart
Come be a the fire inside of me
Until You and I are one

I remember the week I came back from Thailand, we sang this song at my church’s Friday night fellowship and I cried my eyes out. Little did I know that that was the first of many times I’d cry because worshipping God made me realize how much our God loves us and loves the people in Thailand who don’t know him. 

Going back to that friday night where I heard this song for the first time… All my memories of Thailand were still so fresh and the burden in my heart for the people was still very new. Justin was leading worship and shared a story before we sang and he told us about how his friend, who went to China on missions, came to a realization how much God is faithful to love the Chinese…. how God pursue’s their hearts… when we as people fail to do so. As we began to sing the chorus over and over “you won’t relent until you have it all. my heart is yours”, it beautiful was it to know that our awesome, holy, omnipotent God is pursuing our hearts and deeply desires an intimate relationship with us. when we fall, stumble… mess up, God won’t relent until he has our whole heart. He offers forgiveness and reconciles us back to Him. but what got the tears flowing was when all the thai people i met that summer with popped into my head. The thought of the kids growing up without Jesus and living a life without true joy and purpose destroyed me… and I couldn’t do anything about it. I’m in american and they’re in thailand. the song continued “you won’t relent until you have it all…” my heart sank, how amazing it was to know that our God is pursuing the hearts of his children in Thailand.. in Japan, taiwan, honduras, america… everywhere.  Our God desire’s His children He calls for them… He wants you to be a coheir with Christ. the tears wouldn’t stop.. our God is amazing. Our perfect King loves sinners like us. I was overwhelmed by the greatness of our God.. He is still working in Thailand and we have to faithfully pray for the lost. 

He won’t relent