Nearer To God
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Where is God when your life is excruciatingly challenging and you feel all alone?
God is nearer to you than you realize.
We are in God’s presence, because God is near. God is not far from his children. There is no place we can go that God is not aware of where we are and present to us.
God spoke of his nearness to his people through the Prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 23:23-24, ESV).
We cannot flee or avoid God’s presence. God is nearer to us than we are aware. The presence of God inhabits and fills all of his creation and God is present with us.
May we take comfort and security in the presence of God who is nearer than we know.
A Prayer In Times of Suffering and Weakness: “Dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: I hold up all my weakness to your strength, my failure to your faithfulness, my sinfulness to your perfection, my loneliness to your compassion, my little pains to your great agony on the Cross. I pray that you will cleanse me, strengthen me, guide me, so that in all ways my life may be lived as you would have it lived, without cowardice and for you alone. Show me how to live in true humility, true contrition, and true love. Amen.” (#95., Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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