Title: It's Blessing to Get Close to God
In one of Schopenhauer's fables, the philosopher, there is a tale called 'The Porcupine Dilemma'. Porcupines with thorny hairs all over their body like hedgehogs get hurt if they get too close to each other. This is because they stab each other with thorns. However, if they are too far apart, it is difficult to tolerate the cold. That's why they always keep a certain distance to keep their body temperature without hurting them. It is to maintain the interval of tricks that can win even if it is cold without being stabbed. If a person tries to maintain such an equidistant relationship, he cannot make friends with anyone, and in the end he is abandoned by everyone.
Some people keep a certain distance from God. He doesn't even come close to God and refuses to let God come near him. He tells him not to come any closer. When he draws close to God, all his faults are exposed and he refuses to come near. Also, when God comes close to him, he tells him not to come any closer because he will have to give up everything he has.
John 3:20- Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest their deeds be exposed, but those who follow the truth come to the light, because their deeds are done in God. to show
However, it is only when God and man are close that they are happy. If you are far from God, you will not be happy. Suppose a couple is emotionally distant, think they share a room, imagine they separate, are they happy? You have to be close to God. It should be one, not close. So Jesus said that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.
And if I am in you and you are in me, then you are in God. And the way that Jesus is in me and I am in Jesus is that the Word is in me and I am in the Word. Simply put, it is believing the Word and doing it and living it. A person who shuns the words of the Bible and lives according to his own thoughts and opinions and the ways of the world is a person who believes but is far from God. A person who neither draws near to God nor draws near to God.
Young trees are easy to straighten. The old tree should not be If you try to fix it, it will break. But Jesus just pointed out that unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Are you close to God? Judge conscientiously. You can tell if a person is close to God by looking at the person's actions.
A man named Asaph who wrote the psalms was a man of faith. He was a man who tried to live by faith. He believed that God gives grace to the pure in heart. But he almost stumbled and almost denied his faith. The reason is that the non-believers were more prosperous and peaceful than the believers. In their hearts, they were dissatisfied with this seemingly unfair treatment of God, and jealousy arose, but they did not pour out their complaints out of their mouths. I held it tight until it came out of my throat.
No matter how much I think and agonize, it is not understandable and unacceptable for the bad people to prosper and the good to suffer, even when they get sick. Then, I found the answer only when I entered the temple of God. God revealed the future of the wicked by inspiration. Only then did I feel very fortunate that I did not pour out my dissatisfaction with God's treatment. If I had poured out my complaints, I breathed a sigh of relief thinking about how much spiritual damage it would have done to those who believed in God and lived faithfully.
And when Asaph entered the temple of the Lord, he realized something great. The truth is that drawing closer to God is a blessing. Believe, “It is good for me to be close to God.”
1. The meaning of being close to God is a blessing to me
In verse 26, it is said that God is the rock of my heart and an everlasting portion. In Psalm 18, God is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my shield, the horn of salvation, and my stronghold. God is life. be the light All power, energy, God is the foundation. To depart from God is death, darkness, despair, and helplessness if we are far from God.
Earth revolves around the sun. Far from the sun, it is cold. The farther away from the sun, the less living things. If it does not receive the light of the sun, it becomes night, and when it receives the light of the sun, it becomes day. Everything revolves around the sun. But in Acts 17:28 it says that we live, move, and exist by God who made the sun. Without God, we cannot live or exist. John 15:5 “Apart from Me you can do nothing” God is all. That is why being close to God is a blessing. Being close to God is a blessing.
2. Why is it a blessing to draw near to God? Far from God is destruction.
Verse 27: “For those who are far from you will perish; you have destroyed all who have turned away from you like harlots.” Those who distance themselves from the Lord have distanced themselves from God, who is life. Turning away from God means death. Anything that is not close to life is close to death. Therefore, being close to God is a blessing to me. The poet entered the temple and realized this truth. God inspired me and opened my spiritual eyes so that I could understand. The wicked prosper, prosper, prosper, and without pain, sorrow or suffering, wealth increases day by day, so what does God know? Does the one on high have knowledge? Then God showed him that the wicked suddenly and suddenly perished.
Like a prostitute, a prostitute is a person who has sex with another man for his own husband. A person who has sex with another woman for his wife is also a lecher.