C. S. Lewis writes:

An ‘impersonal God’ - well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads - better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap - best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband - that is quite another matter.

- C.S. Lewis's Miracles

Later in this same passage, C.S. Lewis asks, "Supposing we really found Him? Or, He found us?"

There are many people on a mad search for God, even though they call it something else. They'll say "I'm trying to find happiness" or "Looking for someone who will make me feel good and happy" or "I just need this amount of money, this kind of boyfriend or girlfriend, this car, then I'll be set". Some get a little closer when they say: "If I only knew the meaning of life, then I'd know what I'm supposed to be doing."

We are all on a search for something to fill us, to stop us from striving, and we, as faulty humans, will try anything. Bad things, good things, people, possessions, activities, experiences... But nothing will fill in the hole like Christ. In fact, nothing ever fills the emptiness in us except Christ.

So, in all of this searching, if these searching people actually came face to face with God, the real, living God that Lewis describes as "hunter, king, and husband", how would their lives change. Everything would be different. God changes everything.

The cool part is that God, the real, living God, is not sitting on a giant throne somewhere gazing down on our earth nonchalantly. He is playing an active role in our world. He created it, but he hasn't left it here - He is working in it even now. With that in mind, note that God is ardently pursing every one of us, even those who do not know him or believe in him. He pursues us with love, quietly, romantically, drawing us into a relationship with Him. Picture a wayward young woman romanced by a strong lover, diligent in pursuing her.

God may be pursuing you in many different ways. For me, I am captivated by sunrises and sunsets, and I believe God creates them to show his beauty. Other times, friends, acquaintances, even people I don't know, say something that could only be perceived as a word from God. He is wooing you and pulling you towards Him.

And He is real and living and active and personable.