Drawing Near to God

When was the last time you had to wait for something? In this world of instant messaging and same-day deliveries, we are trained to avoid waiting at all costs. Often, the information we want to know or the person we want to talk to is available immediately; we just need to open our smartphone.

When was the last time you heard from God? Although His presence is always h...

So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ So I d...

May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. John 17:23

Jesus came to bring us eternal life and to make God known. His prayer was that His disciples would be unified in the same way that He and the Father were unified. He prayed that the ...

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. Romans 3:20

The Jews thought if they observed the law, they would be righteous (made right by God). Paul explicitly tells them that righteousness apart from the law has been made known a...

Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! Isaiah 30:18

The Lord longs to be gracious and is full of compassion when He hears our cry for help. (Isaiah 30:18) I often find myself straying from the ways of the Lord. It gives me great comfort to know th...