James 4:8 ... Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Exhortation: Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
We draw near God through prayer and through Bible reading and through thinking (and doing) things told us in the Bible.
We correct ourselves and our way by the Word of God. We wash ourselves by the Word.
We know the world speaks all manner of wickedness. We hear it on TV. It is in newspapers. It is spoken on the street as we pass by.
Drawing near to God is a deliberate act ... it is a deliberate choice on our part.
At the end of each daily blog, we have been adding a list of Bible chapters and recommend that we read these. This just helps us to spend more time with God and in HIS way. This is a good investment.
As the world around us becomes more and more wicked and evil, we need to turn from the wickedness and fill ourselves with the wonderful acts of godly people in the Bible, thinking upon those things. By this we endure. As we witness the victories in the Bible, God is predominate in our minds. It is very helpful to us. These humans can seem so big and powerful. But they are as nothing in the sight of God. Why do we make them to be so much? Fill yourself instead with God's examples and the humans will diminish.