I will find you...

"I will find you...No matter how long it takes...No matter how far..."

In my opinion, this is the greatest line from one of my favorite movies: "The Last of the Mohicans".  The hero of the story, Nathaniel (or Hawkeye), is forced to leave his sweetheart, Cora Munro, behind for marauding Indians to capture because his gunpowder is wet and there is a better chance of rescuing her later.  So he tells Cora that she will be captured and she must submit to whatever the Indians require of her...but she must remain strong and alive and then he delivers the line above and jumps, with his adopted Mohican father and brother, into a waterfall.  Nathaniel is skilled in fighting, expert in the ways of the woods, and committed to honoring his word and loyal to those he loves.  I couldn't help but think, as I watched the film last night, of the parallels with Christ.  And when he tells the love of his life that he will find her, you are absolutely confident that he fill follow through with that promise.  And that is just what our Lord has done.  Through the ages He has promised that, though the chains of sin have bound us and tripped us and frustrated us, He will find us...He will come for us...no matter how long it takes...no matter how far.  And He has come for us and paid the ransom for our rescue and we have trusted in that rescue and now we are confident that He will come again and take us to Heaven to live face to face with Him.

1 John 5:²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.