Draw Near

"Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

"Enoch walked with God.—“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?”—It is good to be near God.

“The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. . . . But when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.”

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me . . . when you seek me with all your heart.”

"Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way, . . . and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith."

James 4:8; Gen. 5:24; Amos 3:3; Ps. 73:28; 2 Chron. 15:2, 4; Jer. 29:11-13; Heb. 10:19-22