Tommy Tenney

God Chasers: My Soul Follows Hard After Thee Tommy Tenney

What is a God Chaser? A God chaser is an individual whose hunger exceeds his reach. A God chaser is a person whose passion for God's presence presses him to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch him. A child chases a loving parent until, suddenly, the strong arms of the father enfold the chaser. The pursuer becomes the captive; the pursued the captor. Paul put it this way: I chase after that I may catch that which apprehended me (Phil. 3:12). Job was a God chaser. He said, Oh that I knew where I might find Him! David was one; he said. My soul followeth hard after Thee. Paul was one too: That I may know Him.... The passionate paths of God chasers can be traced across the pages of history from Moses the strutterer, David the singer, and Paul the itinerant preacher, to contemporaries like A. W. Tozer, Leonard Ravenhill, and countless others who share one common bond: an insatiable hunger to know their Lord. These are people whose relentless, passionate pursuit of Christ often made them appear foolish in the eyes of other. Yet, having tasted His goodness and glimpsed the invisible, they could be satisfied with nothing less. Add your name to the list...become a God chaser. Who knows? You might be one whom He catches.